Agree with you, Jay--and by the way, your SIN-A-RAMA stuff is
beyond compare. Rob Elkin Long Island University
--- Jay Gertzman <
jgertzma@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I have just read Mosely's first Easy Rawlings
novel,
> _Devil in a Blue
> Dress_. I have read that Daphne, the woman
referred
> to in the title, is
> associated with various colors, not only blue
but
> green, brown, white,
> etc. She is of mixed parentage, and has powers
of
> universal femininity.
> It is puzzling to think about her as either a
devil
> or a femme fatale.
> But Mosley makes her a complex and
probably
> archetypal character,
> although I am not clear on all the implications.
I
> notice that many of
> the Rawlings novels have one color each in
the
> title. I wonder if
> Mosely's treatment, not so much of race but
of
> behavior patterns of
> Americans interacting with race and class, is
not
> an example of how
> flexible the noir crime novel is (Charyn,
> Hendricks, Mailer, Paretsky,
> Burroughs).
>
>
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