![]() ![]() Ultimately, by tackling the most deeply embedded cultural issue in America (race), Walter Mosley is able to fulfill the goal of hard-boiled detective fiction in a way that the forerunners of the tradition could never have imagined. Through following the specific mores of the hard-boiled genre, and utilizing the issue of racial identification through setting, character duality and racial transgression, Mosley is able to create a commentary on the hypocrisy of a social structure that identifies all inhabitants based upon racial markers and the injustices that result from such a system. The primary way in which Mosley expands the realm of critical commentary within the hard-boiled genre is by racializing the landscape however, while bringing race into the hard-boiled genre is the thematic goal of Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley does much more than simply make the characters black. As Easy discovers, upstanding behavior is not enough to protect him from the. The events of Devil in a Blue Dress put Easy’s efforts to earn respect to the test. ![]() While Walter Mosley performs the functions of the hard-boiled genre in a way that would make Raymond Chandler proud, Mosley is also providing a level of social commentary that was rarely, if ever, accessible to traditional hard-boiled writers. 48-page comprehensive study guideChapter-by-chapter summaries and multiple sections of expert analysis Featured in our Guilt collection. Walter Mosley is primarily known for his Easy Rawlins series, namely the first book of the series, Devil in a Blue Dress, which is a hard-boiled detective novel. ![]()
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