The Crisis, January 1st, 2004
Walter Mosley Ventures into the Underground The Man in My Basement By Walter Mosley (Little, Brown, $22.95)
Underground shelters play a large role in African American letters. Freedom stories of the Underground Railroad; the journey of Henry "Box" Brown; the man beneath the street of Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground', mosi famously, the cloister of the unnamed narrator of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Time and again African American protagonists have retreated "underground": to cellars, escape holes and surreal, subterranean worlds. For Black, usually male, desperadoes accustom...
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