Detective in Search of Black Aesthetics: Glimpses of Self in Barbara Neely’s Blanche on the Lam

Authors

  • Dr. Angkayarkan Vinayaka Selvi Assistant Professor of English Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli Tamil Nadu – 620 024
  • Ms.S. Cecilia Mary Research Scholar (Full-Time) Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli Tamil Nadu – 620 024

Keywords:

Detective Fiction, Black Women’s Self, Barbara Neely, Black Motherhood

Abstract

The paper intends to analyze and evaluate Barbara Neely’s Blanche on the Lam as a feminist
detective fiction that serves as a counter discourse to Sherlock Holmes’s tradition of mystery
genres. The history of detective and mystery genres has been evaluated in order to fix Barbara
Neely within the field of Detective genres. Barbara Neely presents the protagonist Blanche White
to subvert the stereotypical images that are attached to black women. The theory of Patricia Hill
Collins is used in order to analyse the novel and to establish that black women are capable of
being intellectuals to resolve mysteries surrounded in a murder. Blanche’s self and consciousness
are re/formulated to re/presented new images of black women by maintaining the predicament of
African American women writers

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Published

28-01-2015

How to Cite

Vinayaka Selvi, D. A., & Mary, M. C. (2015). Detective in Search of Black Aesthetics: Glimpses of Self in Barbara Neely’s Blanche on the Lam. SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH, 2(9), 9. Retrieved from https://ijellh.com/index.php/OJS/article/view/9023

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 9 (2015): Volume II Issue IX January 2015

Section

Article

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/