SUBVERTING BLACKFACE AND THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF AMERICAN IDENTITY IN JOHN BERRYMAN'S 77 DREAM SONGS

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Title:	SUBVERTING BLACKFACE AND THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF AMERICAN IDENTITY IN JOHN BERRYMAN'S 77 DREAM SONGS
Author:	Rosby, Amy
Description:	John Berryman has been criticized for his employment of white performance of blackface minstrelsy's conventions and dialect in 77 Dream Songs because of the complex history of this tradition of blackface's problematic performance of racial fantasy and because of Berryman's designation as a white, confessional poet. However, when one observes the history of this tradition of minstrelsy, its initial reception, its "transcodification" into the white American racial ideology, and subsequent scholarly analyses of its implications, it is evident that Berryman creates an anti-model of minstrelsy which consequently becomes a minstrelsy of "whiteness." Through this anti-model, which shifts the public gaze from "blackness" to "whiteness," Berryman deconstructs each, eliminating the justification for unequal political power based on the faulty ideology of difference.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1216665711 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/104901
Date:	2008

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