"Blanche on the Lam"

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This paper examines Barbara Neely's first novel, "Blanche on the Lam", and in particular, looks at how Neely makes it clear from the very first page that this book is about race, class, and gender, although the race and class issues seem to get slightly more attention than gender, at least in a direct, in-your-face way. It shows how, from the very first page, Neely sets Blanche up as a worthy and experienced commentator on the issues of race and class.

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"Blanche White may be broke, black and female, but in her own mind, of which she keeps good control, she is worthy. In her own mind, she calls her employers especially the hateful Grace for whom she works while on the lam by the first names, rather than Mrs. or Ma'am. "It helped her to remember that having the money to hire a domestic worker didn't make you any better than the worker, only richer". In Blanche's mind, there is no class, although it took a lot of reminding to keep her convinced of that in the society she lived in. Riding in her employer's car to the country house, she noticed a police car and didn't want to be recaptured."

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