Devil In A Blue Dress Analysis

A wise man once said your future isn’t somewhere you’re going it’s a place that you’re creating. Well I think it’s safe to say that my people (African Americans) have created a stable present from harsh realities of slavery, oppression, and racial tension that we have seen in the past also in the present. In this paper I will touch on what the Black Experience is to me and how it correlates with Devil in a Blue Dress, in addition to where we have come from and where I see us going into the future. Devil in a Blue Dress introduces the reader to Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, the protagonist and narrator of the story. It is 1948, and he is a young black veteran of World War II who has moved to Los Angeles after growing up in a tough neighborhood in

Wesley entitled Power and Knowledge in Walter Mosley 's Devil in a Blue Dress she says “Despite his cynicism, a character like Raymond Chandler 's Philip Marlowe is a servant of the dominant system of law and order, but Mosley 's Easy Rawlins needs to learn how the operation of that system in the post-war era affects the power of the black man to survive and prosper (103)”. Thus, allowing the reader to see the difference in between Raymond Chandler’s character Phillip Marlowe and Walter Mosley’s Easy Rowlands. Easy Rowlands character fits into the black autistic due to his natural sense toward power, revealing the evils of the dominant culture through his various actions by opposing the opposition, supporting the revolution and change evident by going to any extreme to protect himself in the face of an adversary thus encouraging the community and group unity by remaining in a prominent position in the community by not giving up and fighting for what he believed in no matter the cost; while at the same time remaining honorable and making sure the man didn’t cut down his neighbors trees when they were not

Novels of Walter Mosley by Roger A. Berger stating that “Mason contends that Easy Rawlins discovers the inadequacy of assumed cultural knowledge-especially about race and sexuality-in the construction of self in a racist and sexist society, and thus joins other black protagonists”(282). The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology is essentially one in the same. From the perspective of the black man, ideology allows a person to define the subject of self, the material world as well as the relation of all of these within each other. What is good, what is right, what is beautiful, and what is wrong all plays a huge factor into what determines our ideology as well. An ideology exists in and through the symbol system that gives it meaning. It is our individual meaning to our particular beliefs that helps us refer to particular subjects that we can discuss to formulate our own opinion through our varies experiences in