| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 196 pages) |
| Contents |
Walter Mosley's RL's dream and the creation of a blutopian community / Daniel Stein -- Socrates Fortlow's odyssey: the quest for home and self / Owen E. Brady -- Walter Mosley, Socratic method, and the Black Atlantic / Keith Hughes -- Devil with the blue eyes: reclaiming the human against pure evil in Walter Mosley's The man in my basement / Francesca Canadé Sautman -- Easy women: black beauty in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins mystery series / Lisa B. Thompson -- The visible man: moving beyond false visibility in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins novels / Kelly C. Connelly -- Fearless Ezekiel: alterity in the detective fiction of Walter Mosley / Jerrilyn McGregory -- American negroes revisited: the intellectual and the badman in Walter Mosley's Fearless Jones novels / Terrence Tucker -- At home on "these mean streets": collaboration and community in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins mystery series / Albert U. Turner, Jr -- The mouse will play: the parodic in Walter Mosley's fiction / Laura Quinn -- Shadows of an imminent future: Walter Mosley's dystopia and science fiction / Juan F. Elices -- Cyberfunk: Walter Mosley takes black to the future / Derek C. Maus -- Epilogue: whither Walter? A brief overview of Mosley's recent work / Owen E. Brady, Derek C. Maus |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mosley, Walter -- Criticism and interpretation
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Mosley, Walter |
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Mosley, Walter. |
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Mosley, Walter. |
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African Americans in literature.
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Home in literature.
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American.
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African Americans in literature
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African Americans -- Race identity
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Home in literature
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Heimatgefühl
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Ethnische Identität
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USA
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Schwarze (Motiv)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Brady, Owen Edward, 1946- editor.
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Maus, Derek C., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781604733358 |
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1604733357 |
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1282485849 |
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9781282485846 |
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1282485202 |
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9781282485204 |
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9786612485206 |
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6612485205 |
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