Christopher G. Morris

Repressing the Absence of the Truth: Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress

Abstract:While hermeneutic criticism of Devil in a Blue Dress essentializes the identity of its protagonist Easy Rawlins, this deconstructive study examines Rawlins as lacking such a referent. From this perspective, the novel allegorizes Derridean destinerrance, the open-ended deferral of meaning. Rawlins represses a s...