{"id":1774,"date":"2022-01-12T00:48:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2025-05-12T00:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T00:54:48","slug":"weaponizing-the-voice-in-a-hostile-environment-a-reading-of-august-wilsons-ma-raineys-black-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"WEAPONIZING THE VOICE IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: A READING OF AUGUST WILSON\u2019S MA RAINEY\u2019S BLACK BOTTOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Abstract<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">This paper explores the ways in which the Black characters of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">August Wilson\u2019s Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom have used their voices as a weapon to tame the hostile environment they live in. In this perspective, the Marxist and the Afrocentric critical approaches are used as the theoretical frameworks against which this study is conducted. This paper has found the African Americans\u2019 voices can be used as consciousness awareness raiser and a weapon to confront the hostility of their environment.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Keywords: Blues, environment, hostility, voice, weapon<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Cet article explore les fa\u00e7ons dont les personnages noirs de la pi\u00e8ce Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom d\u2019August Wilson ont utilis\u00e9 leur voix comme une arme pour apprivoiser l&rsquo;environnement hostile dans lequel ils vivent. Dans cette perspective, les approches critiques marxiste et afrocentrique sont utilis\u00e9es comme cadre th\u00e9orique contre pour mener cette \u00e9tude. Cet article a d\u00e9couvert que les voix des Afro-Am\u00e9ricains peuvent \u00eatre utilis\u00e9es comme un outil de sensibilisation et une arme pour faire face \u00e0 l&rsquo;hostilit\u00e9 de leur environnement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Mots-cl\u00e9s : arme, Blues, environnement, hostilit\u00e9, voix<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract This paper explores the ways in which the Black characters of August Wilson\u2019s Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom have used their voices as a weapon to tame the hostile environment they live in. In this perspective, the Marxist and the Afrocentric critical approaches are used as the theoretical frameworks against which this study is conducted. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}