RACE, GENDER AND GENRE IN BARBARA NEELY’S BLANCHE AMONG THE TALENTED TENTH

The proposed paper intends to critically analyze the prominent issues of race, gender and genre in the mystery writing of Barbara Neely. The chosen text is a prominent political and creative space that subverts the stereotypical notions attached to black women .The writer uses the voice and experiences of a black female domestic worker Blanche White against intra-racial attitudes of African American society. The writings of Barbara Neely could be treated as a multifold record of detection, racism and women’s oppression. She proves that any genre could be used to fulfill the predicament of African American writers and genre and plot as pretexts used for the empowerment of any marginalized group