03506nam 2200637 a 450 991097214100332120200520144314.01-282-48520-297866124852061-60473-335-7(CKB)1000000000721962(EBL)515537(OCoLC)317404636(SSID)ssj0000155164(PQKBManifestationID)11155747(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155164(PQKBWorkID)10111580(PQKB)11740389(StDuBDS)EDZ0000204111(MiAaPQ)EBC515537(MdBmJHUP)muse13567(Au-PeEL)EBL515537(CaPaEBR)ebr10282590(CaONFJC)MIL248584(EXLCZ)99100000000072196220140131d2008 fy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFinding a way home a critical assessment of Walter Mosley's fiction /edited by Owen E. Brady and Derek C. Maus1st ed.Jackson, [Miss.] University Press of Mississippic20081 online resource (223 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60473-088-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 NovelsFearless 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; IndexIn this book, thirteen chapters 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 communal resources. The chapters examine his queries about the meaning of 'home' in various social and historical contexts.African Americans in literatureHome in literatureAfrican AmericansRace identityAfrican Americans in literature.Home in literature.African AmericansRace identity.813/.54Brady Owen Edward1946-1817985Maus Derek C1131356StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910972141003321Finding a way home4376868UNINA