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Contents vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xxv Abbreviations 3 Walter Mosley’s RL’s Dream and the Creation of a Blutopian Community —Daniel Stein 18 Socrates Fortlow’s Odyssey: The Quest for Home and Self —Owen E. Brady 30 Walter Mosley, Socratic Method, and the Black Atlantic —Keith Hughes 44 Devil with the Blue Eyes: Reclaiming the Human against Pure Evil in Walter Mosley’s The Man in My Basement —Francesca Canadé Sautman 58 Easy Women: Black Beauty in Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins Mystery Series —Lisa B. Thompson 70 The Visible Man: Moving Beyond False Visibility in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins Novels —Kelly C. Connelly 84 Fearless Ezekiel: Alterity in the Detective Fiction of Walter Mosley —Jerrilyn McGregory vi 97 American Negroes Revisited: The Intellectual and The Badman in Walter Mosley’s Fearless Jones Novels —Terrence Tucker 109 At Home on “These Mean Streets”: Collaboration and Community in Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins Mystery Series —Albert U. Turner, Jr. 121 The Mouse Will Play: The Parodic in Walter Mosley’s Fiction —Laura Quinn 133 Shadows of an Imminent Future: Walter Mosley’s Dystopia and Science Fiction —Juan F. Elices 148 Cyberfunk: Walter Mosley Takes Black to the Future —Derek C. Maus 161 Epilogue: Whither Walter? A Brief Overview of Mosley’s Recent Work —Owen E. Brady and Derek C. Maus 177 Works Cited 189 Contributors 193 Index Contents ...