Arthur Miller's resurrection blues: The least Milleresque play?

Starting from the observation that Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues is in many ways unique in comparison to the playwright's previous oeuvre, we offer evidence that the drama testifies to the evolution of Miller's style, rather than a change in his focus. The conclusion that Miller's penultimate play is the least Milleresque is a consequence of its contemporaneity, unusual setting, and adaptation of the topic to contemporary intellectual currents. Although the context of Resurrection Blues is undeniably postmodern, the themes that permeate Miller' s entire oeuvre-social criticism, innocence, and guilt-are also crucial to this drama. This paper argues that Resurrection Blues, despite being often interpreted as cynical, suggests that the possibility of resistance to the system and redemption exists. However, the play does not imply that a profound change is possible through a political revolution, but only through a change within the in-dividual, i.e. a revolution of consciousness.