The Mouse Will Play
The Mouse Will Play
The Parodic in Walter Mosley’s Fiction
This chapter examines the role that formal parody plays in Walter Mosley’s work. It argues that Mosley’s work is simultaneously a parody and an exemplar of “hard-boiled” detective fiction. Mosley uses the hard-boiled genre to at once reiterate and destabilize the formula. He makes rich use of its conventions while striving to bring its chickens home to roost by denaturalizing those conventions through a process of unmasking the undemocratic interests that they serve.
Keywords: Walter Mosley, African American literature, parody, detective fiction
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