Pirandello and His Muse: The Plays For Marta Abba by Daniela Bini (review)

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318 REVIEWS replicate "another theme common to American drama": the "sins of the father are visited upon the family" (41). Bogumil refers to a number of secondary sources such as Francis Davis's The History of the Blues, Ronald Takaki's A Different Mirror, Kim Pereira's August Wilson and the African-American Odyssey, Amiri Baraka's Blues People , and Daniel M. Johnson and Rex R. Campbell's Black Migration in America . In this way she adds texture to the close readings of the plays, each of which is analyzed by focusing on African American social and hislorical backgrounds. In discussing Ma Rainey's Black BO llom, Bogumil inserts etymological information concerning the word "juke," tracing its origins to the Bambara language in West Africa and to the Gullah of the Georgia Sea Islands. Intertextual relationships are drawn between Joe Turner's Come and Gone and the poetry of Langslon Hughes, especially "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "Afro-American Fragment," in which the "African contin

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