SOURCE: Smith, David L. “Walter Mosley's Blue Light: (Double Consciousness) squared.” Extrapolation 42, no. 1 (spring 2001): 7-26.
In the following essay, Smith discusses Blue Light in terms of the intersection of transcendental thought and the African American experience, arguing that Blue Light's lukewarm critical reception was a result of reviewers not recognizing the work as “a novel of ideas.”
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