Revolutionary Violence Vs. Passive Resistance: Liberation Strategies in Amiri Baraka's The Slave and August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Faculty Art Year: 2018
Type of Publication: ZU Hosted Pages:
Authors:
Marwa Ramadan Abdelkader Amien
Journal: ELLS, Department of English, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University ELLS, Department of English, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University Volume:
Keywords : Revolutionary Violence , Passive Resistance: Liberation Strategies    
Abstract:
This paper traces the influence of violence and passive resistance, as two competing modes of postcolonial theory and practice, on two African American plays: Amiri Baraka’s The Slave (1964) and August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1
    
     
 
       

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