Devil in a Blue Dress Walter Mosley

The expansive genre of film noir works to construct and deconstruct borders. Film noir both establishes and complicatesborders of identity within race, class, ethnicity, and gender. Neo-noir emulates the visual style of film noir as well as...

There are several subtle images in Walter Mosley's detective novel Devil In a Blue Dress that suggest the unusual ending. Throughout the novel, the main character, a black man named Easy Rawlins, sees people as either black or white. He is...

Traditional qualities of a feminine women usually include a beautiful physique, a gentle, nurturing nature, and a degree of sexual reservation. Throughout literature and film, women that embrace typical ideas of femininity are also portrayed as...