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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782838003321

Titolo

Finding a way home [[electronic resource] ] : a critical assessment of Walter Mosley's fiction / / edited by Owen E. Brady and Derek C. Maus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008

ISBN

1-282-48520-2

9786612485206

1-60473-335-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BradyOwen Edward <1946->

MausDerek C

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

African Americans in literature

Home in literature

African Americans - Race identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Abbreviations; Walter Mosley's RL's Dream and the Creation of a Blutopian Community; Socrates Fortlow's Odyssey: The Quest for Home and Self; Walter Mosley, Socratic Method, and the Black Atlantic; Devil with the Blue Eyes: Reclaiming the Human against Pure Evil in Walter Mosley's The Man in My Basement; Easy Women: Black Beauty in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Mystery Series; The Visible Man: Moving Beyond False Visibility in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Novels

Fearless Ezekiel: Alterity in the Detective Fiction of Walter MosleyAmerican Negroes Revisited: The Intellectual and The Badman in Walter Mosley's Fearless Jones Novels; At Home on "These Mean Streets": Collaboration and Community in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Mystery Series; The Mouse Will Play: The Parodic in Walter Mosley's Fiction; Shadows of an Imminent Future: Walter Mosley's Dystopia and Science Fiction; Cyberfunk: Walter Mosley Takes Black to the Future; Epilogue: Whither Walter? A Brief Overview of Mosley's Recent Work; Works Cited; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Essays by Owen E. Brady, Kelly C. Connelly, Juan F. Elices, Keith Hughes,



Derek C. Maus, Jerrilyn McGregory, Laura Quinn, Francesca Canadé Sautman, Daniel Stein, Lisa B. Thompson, Terrence Tucker, and Albert U. Turner, Jr. In Finding a Way Home , thirteen essays by scholars from four countries trace Walter Mosley's distinctive approach to representing African American responses to the feeling of homelessness in an inhospitable America. Mosley (b. 1952) writes frequently of characters trying to construct an idea of home and wrest a sense of dignity, belonging, and hope from cultural and communa