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DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.21559/aellk.2021.47.3.005

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Abstract

Lee, Eunjoo. ¡°The Blues: Resistance and Fury in Ma Rainey¡¯s Black Bottom.¡± Studies in English Language & Literature 47.3 (2021): 77-98. This paper focuses on resistance and fury in August Wilson¡¯ Ma Rainey¡¯s Black Bottom. Ma Rainey gained the nickname ¡®Mother of the Blues¡¯ in the decade of the 1920s. She moved from the Deep South to urban Chicago to record songs with her band. The white producer, Sturdyvant, and the white manager Irvin try to take advantage of Ma¡¯s singing talent for financial gain without respecting her as a human being and famous blues singer. Ma Rainey strives to get white people to treat her the way she wants to be treated. She fights against the inevitable discrimination and injustice African Americans had to endure. For her, the blues is symbolic of resistance. A young black trumpet player, Levee, is an ambitious musician who dreams of recording his own music in the new style of the era. He represses his own pain and fury from a tragic family history stemming from the persecution of whites. He could not move from the Imaginary toward the Symbolic. This means he lacks having the signifier of Lacan¡¯s Name of the Father. He could never reach the stage of the desiring subject and thus remains as merely a little child. He bears his frustration badly about his crushed dreams caused by white people. In this poor state, he can not control himself, and releases his fury by murdering his black colleague, Toledo. (Sungkyul University)

Keywords

# Ma Rainey¡¯s Black Bottom # the blues # race records # resistance # fury

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