Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity, Lyricism, and John Berryman's <em>Dream Songs</em>

Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity, Lyricism, and John Berryman's <em>Dream Songs</em>

<p>Berryman was fascinated with the figure of "the imaginary Jew." The phrase is the title of his first short story, it recurs in <em>The Dream Songs</em>, and it was to have been the topic of the final chapter of his autobiographical novel &lt...

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Main Author:	Andrew S. Gross
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2009-02-01
Series:	Journal of Transnational American Studies
Subjects:	John Berryman (1914-1972) The Dream Songs (1969) "The Imaginary Jew" poetry ethnicity Vietnam War
Online Access:	https://submit.escholarship.org/ojs/index.php/acgcc_jtas/article/view/6942

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