Re Easy Rawlins: The first three tomes formulate the
so-called colors of freedom, blue/red/white; we then get into
colors denied freedom, black/yellow...green = $, of course,
as well as growth potential, etc. I disbelieve the late
realization of the use of color, here. Rob
--- Karin Montin <
kmontin@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I read Devil in a Blue Dress a few years ago, but
it
> has always bothered me that Daphne is not a
devil,
> yet she is demonized by the title. My impression
is
> that Rawlings started with a song references
and
> went from there. I think I read somewhere that
he
> only realized the colour angle after
publishing
> several titles.
>
> As I have mentioned before, I found the plot in
this
> book and the two others by Mosely that I've read
to
> be full of holes, though it's been too long for
me
> to provide any examples. In this book there is a
lot
> of confusion around a couple of characters
named
> Green. Any colour symbolism in that escapes
me.
>
> Karin
>
> At 10:34 24/07/05 -0400, Jay Gertzman
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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