[lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell

[Max B. Sawicky]

I've read a couple of WM, have a stack of others.
They are a lot of fun, not especially memorable.
Pictures of a racist, corrupt and money-dominated society,
nothing much deeper than that, nor any notion of
resistance.  The protagonist is a loner who wins
by surviving.  Pretty standard, though the portrayal
and writing to me are uncommonly good and perceptive.

The movie w/Denzel Washington is very nice too and
gives a good flavor of the books.

The most remarkable thing about the film (Devil in a Blue
Dress) is the ending shot -- a counter-stereotypical tableau
of an African-American neighborhood before the devastation
wrought by the flight of manufacturing jobs and drugs.
Radical in its own way.

mbs

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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell

On Jul 7, 2007, at 10:17 PM, Andy F wrote:


> What do you think of Walter Mosely?

Self-identified socialist, no?

Doug
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