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

• Pubblicazione: Jackson, [Miss.], : University Press of Mississippi, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetto topico: African Americans in literature; Home in literature; African Americans - Race identity
• Altri autori: BradyOwen Edward <1946-> MausDerek C
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references 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: In 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Finding a way home
• ISBN: 1-282-48520-2; 9786612485206; 1-60473-335-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910972141003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II