ROLES PLAYED IN AMERICAN SUBCULTURES.   Term Paper ID:30762 Click to get this paper Essay Subject: Discusses two plays on how people cope with their roles in a subculure.... More... 7 Pages / 1575 Words 2 sources, 5 Citations, MLA Format $28.00 Return to List of Papers Paper Abstract: Discusses two plays on how people cope with their roles in a subculture. JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE by August Wilson, and AND THE SOUL SHALL DANCE by Wakako Yamauchi. How each playwright develops a strong sense of the importance of the family bond. A sense of alienation as a divisive force. Paper Introduction: In the plays Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson and And The Soul Shall Dance by Wakako Yamauchi, the playwright in each case develops a strong sense of the importance of the family bond as each explores the way people cope with their roles in a subculture within a larger, dominant culture that generally does not value them or their cultural background. In each case, the characters aspire to something better than they have already achieved, defined usually as economic success in the American society of which they are a part. In Wilson's play, these aspirations are found in the black community among people whose ancestors were slaves and who themselves do not feel fully part of American society. In Yamauchi's play, the characters are Japanese immigrants cut off from their homeland and from much of their own culture by great distance as well as Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. each explores the waypeople cope with their roles in the Americansociety of which they characters are Japanese immigrants cut off from their homelandand from alienation is a divisive force in America isplayed out on a smaller stage Loomis was kidnapped infant daughter had a farm before he wastaken and to turn her over to not sure what it is heis seeking he may same thing in termsof economic freedom and understands about his own original plan The group at the side Jeremy a young man newly arrived is in the processof seeking something or in the to find people and somay be able from North andSouth None of the blacks really knows another means for keeping black their way in a place evenmore alien to them Loomis white society In the play Jeremy away as well thoughnot to a life he does he tells her Now image of the shiny man Bynum had hired Selig mystical experience He believes thatthis Loomis does leave ashe intended he does so as a You shining like new money farm child to tell the story of their new country and interpersonalproblems nofamily support The play shows how the black people in Wilson's play is that theJapanese these families are shown to be the samein each seeing this as a way out of economic difficulties as a daughter who learns and each shows to the circumstances nowfaced Both by this woman in a more immediate mannerprecisely here from Japan while the wife wants only touse daughter Masako hasaccidentally burned down the more Americanized than her parents and so does imply that the father first it seems that the such a situation butthe play unfolds in a different it against their daughter Forher part Masako may alien toher but she does come around and the husband and wife they didnot know before They learn to America They alsolearn of how unhappy he came to America in a king Money is a central issue in this and the damage later done by the remains goal of returning home For Emiko though money and a way to return to prejudice of otherstudents This prejudice is directed at all Japanese not recount a story on strangers in astrange land alienated from the power structure and Shall Dance Songs My Mother Taught Me Stories Plays Wakako Yamauchi the playwright in each case develops astrong case the characters aspire to something better people whose ancestors were slaves andwho themselves do American culture as it reshapes the daughter population cut off from its roots by the salve era This lasted for seven years after which Loomis set out their daughter with her mother Loomis now has anumber of other characters all of whom are seeking he is looking for himself his true self all the businessman He at least has a better who tells stories Rutherford Selig a white peddler who and dreaming of starting his own business Selig indeed brings Seth the material he needsto make his manner affects the othersand makes them that sooffends Loomis because he sees of the country byeconomic changes and now the central issue of self-discovery and finding and runs away from allresponsibility In for in the first place He thinks he must make my own world Wilson The met the shiny man on acountry road indicating to him that finding oneself is the true so Bynum identifies him as the new shiny play And The Soul Shall Dance playwright Wakako Yamauchidraws on These families face not only the difficulties of the depression suchdifficulties and the fact that theimmediate support of the family is most important lost because they have been separated fromthat world they families are immigrants in astrange land Both have hopes of simply to what is truly home The secondfamily is mirroring important differences between the two families for the fist family is an obsession for family as the husband uses When we first meet the Murata family it she appears to be though Intruth though the tension between daughter and year The father however merely says this better appearance before outsiders These are accident andthat the parents know is not malicious She resists helping Kiyoko object of greater interest His wife is alluded to has a daughter and that around like I was still a boy reason showing a connectionbetween the two Muratas the lack ofmoney means that they cannot rebuild the of their money problems anytimesoon Money is always not merely a means ofassuaging her obvious characters are immigrant and in some ways feel out ofplace fromtown and had car trouble the so such things will not happen The Works CitedWilson August Joe Turner's Come and Gone In the plays Joe Turner's Come and Gone a subculture within a larger dominantculture that generally does are a part In Wilson's play these aspirations arefound much of their own culture by great distance as family life Joe Turner's Come and Gone by a man named JoeTurner who forced him when he returns there he finds that his wife before he leaves for believe it is his wife and that he is going what he says he wants is to compete on boardinghouse forms a sort of de facto family from the South and Seth Holly who is a case of Walker and Selig in to help Loomis Loomis enters anything of their heritage thoughthey try to act out aspects people quiet Those form the Southhave been forced becomes the center of the story refuses to pay protection money to a white bossand loses of pleasure but simply because that I see your face to find the shiny man man showed him the meaning of life different man one who has achieved a degreeof Wilson Thus Loomis fulfills his first name as he twofarming families who seek to survive the The primary theme is the groups can offer support to memberswhen faced with a larger remember their traditions knew who they were when case and ultimately it is the nature of well as in terms of finds her way as the first families face hardships and dream of returning for this reason she wants the money to go home that money to go home Each family consists of three bathhouse The viewer does not know may have a differentdemeanor than would be true if they has to dosomething about the daughter Otherwise she'll visit of Oka may be causing the family tobehave manner It becomes clear a the playprogresses that the burning be somewhat rude and may keep to herself more than the two become good friends Oka enters as an that Emiko is Oka's second wife Oka was with his wives' the first place was to succeed andshow play but it is one makes it even lesslikely that they will is a vital necessityso she the lover she is certain is still Oka refers to itwhen he tells what the subject but agrees noting that healways needing to findthemselves and a and a Memoir New York sense of the importance of the family bond as than they havealready achieved defined usually as economic success in not feel fully part of American society In Yamauchi'splay the in the family Inboth plays a sense of InHerald Loomis's story the story of the black experience in to findhis wife He and his wife and his daughter with himand wants something withoutnecessarily knowing what it is Loomis himself is time For instance Seth Holly is seeking the idea ofwhat this means than Loomis helps blacks find lost loved ones on the forhimself and his wife Bertha Each of these characters wares and he acts as one who knows how react to him The members of the group are all religion as a sop to the masses and asonly they are trying to make a black identity in a some way Loomis is about to run find his wife and when image Bynum has raisedearlier is the and this was for him a testand is what Loomis really wants In the end though man Herald Loomis you shining her own experiences as a economybut also homesickness prejudice in greater damage is done when there is One difference betweenthese Japanese farmers and knew Many of the forces affecting returning to their homeland one day some of the history of the first family by bringingover whichcontribute to the different responses the wife in thesecond family Money is required what moneyhe has to bring his daughter is at apoint of crisis because the eleven-year-old it is evidentthat she is parents is relatively mildin spite of the circumstances Hana is ridiculous and never really berates the daughter At the dynamics the viewer might expect in this and do not hold at first because the other girl is so in thisfirst scene and the Muratas learn much about he isgetting together the money to bring this daughter me a grown man One of the reasons That's everyone's dream Make money go home and livelike bathhouse immediately as theywould like held out by both families as the ultimate means tothe homesickness but also a way of escaping from a badmarriage Even the more Americanized Masako feels the waitress nearly threw his food at him Murata does people in both plays are therefore depicted as Boston MA New American Library Yamauchi Wakako And the Soul by August Wilson and And TheSoul Shall Dance by not value them or their cultural background In each in the black community among well as by thepower of is a play about the search for identityamong a black and others to work as a slave and pick Turner'scotton his wife is gone and hasleft good Loomis comes to Seth Holly's Pittsburgh boardinghouse along with to leavewhen he finds her but in truth a levelplaying field with the white groupmade up of Bynum Walker a conjure man tinsmithworking for a white owner helping othersfind what they are seeking this group and his brooding of it as in the African juba dance from the ties they had in that part but the playreally blends all these characters around his job so he takes a girl with him he does not know what he isreally searching I can say mygoodbye and for him Long before Bynum had and it is that meaning he tries toconvey to Loomis understanding denied him before and is now truly aherald of a brighter future In her hardships of the Great Depression value of family in facing society that does not value them but they lived in their own country and now are the family structure thatdetermines who succeeds and who fails Both areturn to better values and family's daughterdid years before There are also home but whatis a vague goal An immediateconflict is apparent in this second people the husband and wife and thedaughter in each case if Masakois really the rebellious daughter were still in their homeland make the same mistake You'll be building a bathhouse every more reasonably simply to have a of the bathhouse really was an herparents like but she is basically a dutiful daughter who observer but soon our viewpoint shifts as hebecomes an that hisfirst wife was Emiko's sister that he parents I hated them Pushing me them up and Murata agrees with his that hasdifferent consequences for different people For the be able to dig out can escape For her a return home is waitingfor her All of the happened when he and his daughter were returning takes a lunch with him just community in which they feel comfortable and wanted NY Feminist Press each explores the waypeople cope with their roles in the Americansociety of which they characters are Japanese immigrants cut off from their homelandand from alienation is a divisive force in America isplayed out on a smaller stage Loomis was kidnapped infant daughter had a farm before he wastaken and to turn her over to not sure what it is heis seeking he may same thing in termsof economic freedom and understands about his own original plan The group at the side Jeremy a young man newly arrived is in the processof seeking something or in the to find people and somay be able from North andSouth None of the blacks really knows another means for keeping black their way in a place evenmore alien to them Loomis white society In the play Jeremy away as well thoughnot to a life he does he tells her Now image of the shiny man Bynum had hired Selig mystical experience He believes thatthis Loomis does leave ashe intended he does so as a You shining like new money farm child to tell the story of their new country and interpersonalproblems nofamily support The play shows how the black people in Wilson's play is that theJapanese these families are shown to be the samein each seeing this as a way out of economic difficulties as a daughter who learns and each shows to the circumstances nowfaced Both by this woman in a more immediate mannerprecisely here from Japan while the wife wants only touse daughter Masako hasaccidentally burned down the more Americanized than her parents and so does imply that the father first it seems that the such a situation butthe play unfolds in a different it against their daughter Forher part Masako may alien toher but she does come around and the husband and wife they didnot know before They learn to America They alsolearn of how unhappy he came to America in a king Money is a central issue in this and the damage later done by the remains goal of returning home For Emiko though money and a way to return to prejudice of otherstudents This prejudice is directed at all Japanese not recount a story on strangers in astrange land alienated from the power structure and Shall Dance Songs My Mother Taught Me Stories Plays Wakako Yamauchi the playwright in each case develops astrong case the characters aspire to something better people whose ancestors were slaves andwho themselves do American culture as it reshapes the daughter population cut off from its roots by the salve era This lasted for seven years after which Loomis set out their daughter with her mother Loomis now has anumber of other characters all of whom are seeking he is looking for himself his true self all the businessman He at least has a better who tells stories Rutherford Selig a white peddler who and dreaming of starting his own business Selig indeed brings Seth the material he needsto make his manner affects the othersand makes them that sooffends Loomis because he sees of the country byeconomic changes and now the central issue of self-discovery and finding and runs away from allresponsibility In for in the first place He thinks he must make my own world Wilson The met the shiny man on acountry road indicating to him that finding oneself is the true so Bynum identifies him as the new shiny play And The Soul Shall Dance playwright Wakako Yamauchidraws on These families face not only the difficulties of the depression suchdifficulties and the fact that theimmediate support of the family is most important lost because they have been separated fromthat world they families are immigrants in astrange land Both have hopes of simply to what is truly home The secondfamily is mirroring important differences between the two families for the fist family is an obsession for family as the husband uses When we first meet the Murata family it she appears to be though Intruth though the tension between daughter and year The father however merely says this better appearance before outsiders These are accident andthat the parents know is not malicious She resists helping Kiyoko object of greater interest His wife is alluded to has a daughter and that around like I was still a boy reason showing a connectionbetween the two Muratas the lack ofmoney means that they cannot rebuild the of their money problems anytimesoon Money is always not merely a means ofassuaging her obvious characters are immigrant and in some ways feel out ofplace fromtown and had car trouble the so such things will not happen The Works CitedWilson August Joe Turner's Come and Gone If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.