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Probing into the Psyche of Subalterns in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

2016; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

1556-5068

N. Gayathri, T. Alagarasan,

Race, History, and American Society

The subjugation and suppression that blacks meet in America causes ineradicable wounds in the psyche of the blacks which they try to remove from their later generations. The present paper probes into the psyche of the African Americans in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone in the Pittsburgh Century Cycle and delves how Wilson employs the blood memory as a primary power to overcome the psychic exile suffered by his characters. By navigating back to the origin of the African American trauma, the play instructs blacks to see through their problems, to reconnect and rebuild themselves with their own historical ancestor slave trade. To solve their imminent problems blacks must seek a positive self-knowledge that transforms their misery into love, power and hope. Wilson persistently insists that African Americans have to upright their impending life only through the diasporic reminiscence. The remembrance makes an individual to transform his ordeal and captivates how to edify others' life with the history of the slaves' voyage.