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Being Black There – Racial Subjectivity and Temporality in Walter Mosley’s Detective Novels
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Review the article: Being Black There – Racial Subjectivity and Temporality in Walter Mosley’s Detective Novels.
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In her article “Being Black There,” Daylanne K. English makes different arguments about the African American Literature and how people have understood it as a distinct timeline. English talks about the idea of the distinct temporality and it is thought to have been advanced by the black intellectuals since Fredrick Douglass. English addresses some of the issues that the contemporary scholars have had about the black people’s temporal or economic alterity. She argues that the hard-boiled novels like the Devil in a Blue Dress help to show that the black literature traces a distinct timeline.
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