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This paper examines the relation between African American identity and ritual in August Wilson's two plays, Joe Turner's Come and Gone and Two Trains Running. Wilson has written ten cycles plays that deal with African Americans' experiences of the twentieth century since Emancipation. He reevaluates the choices made by African Americans in the past and reveals their meaning by looking back in African American history. Unlike radical black playwrights he is concerned with the quest for African American identity through the African ritual.
Wilson said that he wrote Joe Turner's Come and Gone in order to teach the importance of African American cultural and racial past. The themes of separation, migration, and reunion are central to Wilson's exploration of the search by blacks for cultural identity and self-affirmation. Blacks in America have been fighting with ghosts of white men for decades trying to exorcise them from their lives. Joe Turner's Come and Gone is the story of one tormented man, Loomis, looking for his estranged wife and the answers to his own identity and self-discovery. For Loomis the journey toward self-knowledge includes two apocalyptic rituals. In the first step Loomis confronts his vision of "bones walking on top water", mythic image of his ancestral suffering. In the final moment, Loomis, with a symbolic act, finds himself purged from his past and a free man. At last he is born again as an African Loomis.
Two Trains Running reflects the complex social surrounding African Americans at the end of the sixties. This play focuses on the inner life of a group of African Americans and the process through which they become ready to move forward by finding their own song. Mythical figure, Aunt Ester fills a spiritual void in the lives of Memphis's weary group. She is a living metaphor of past black experience and has soothing healing powers. Her wise counsel convinces Memphis to face the demon of his past. So he realizes that he cannot go into the future unless he confronts his past.
Wilson regularly insists that African American ancestral voices must be heard. So the lesson of two plays is that African American voices and culture must be sustained through spiritual reconciliation.
Wilson said that he wrote Joe Turner's Come and Gone in order to teach the importance of African American cultural and racial past. The themes of separation, migration, and reunion are central to Wilson's exploration of the search by blacks for cultural identity and self-affirmation. Blacks in America have been fighting with ghosts of white men for decades trying to exorcise them from their lives. Joe Turner's Come and Gone is the story of one tormented man, Loomis, looking for his estranged wife and the answers to his own identity and self-discovery. For Loomis the journey toward self-knowledge includes two apocalyptic rituals. In the first step Loomis confronts his vision of "bones walking on top water", mythic image of his ancestral suffering. In the final moment, Loomis, with a symbolic act, finds himself purged from his past and a free man. At last he is born again as an African Loomis.
Two Trains Running reflects the complex social surrounding African Americans at the end of the sixties. This play focuses on the inner life of a group of African Americans and the process through which they become ready to move forward by finding their own song. Mythical figure, Aunt Ester fills a spiritual void in the lives of Memphis's weary group. She is a living metaphor of past black experience and has soothing healing powers. Her wise counsel convinces Memphis to face the demon of his past. So he realizes that he cannot go into the future unless he confronts his past.
Wilson regularly insists that African American ancestral voices must be heard. So the lesson of two plays is that African American voices and culture must be sustained through spiritual reconciliation.
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