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A 5 page paper which examines
how August Wilson’s plays comment on the Black experience and the culture. The plays
discussed are “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Fences,” “Joe Turner's Come and Gone,”
and “The Piano Lesson.” No additional sources cited.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAwils.rtf
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of himself as well. He is a man of mixed blood and a man of incredible literary talent. While he started out intending to write poetry his life quickly turned
to one wherein he tried to understand his life through a presentation of plays. He has written several plays, each seemingly documenting different experiences and times. In the following paper
we examine four of his plays, discussing how they reflect the culture of the African American people and the Black experience. The plays discussed are "Ma Raineys Black Bottom," "Fences,"
"Joe Turners Come and Gone," and "The Piano Lesson." Ma Raineys Black Bottom In this particular play we find the setting to be Chicago during the 1920s.
It is a story that revolves around the blues legend known as Gertrude "Ma" Rainey. It is, of course, a fictional look at one day in the life of this
woman. With an understanding that it is just one day in the life of many people in the music business we can understand how Wilson is trying, successfully, to illustrate
the conditions and experiences of these talented people in a time when blacks were certainly not appreciated for talent much less respected as humans. In this study of the
Black experience in Chicago in the 1920s we see realistic dialogue and we see how the black musician is clearly being exploited by those with power, the white record companies.
Living in a state of clear anger and frustration these people take their anger out on their own people rather than taking it out on the oppressors. What this
particular play brings to the viewer is an understanding of how helpless people can feel when faced with such conditions. It is also a subtle look at how racism can
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