Storcheus S. Афроамериканская идентичность в детективах В. Мосли.

The object of the research is Walter Mosley's fiction about detective Ezekiel Rawlins. The goal of the research is the analysis of the specific features of African American identity representation in W. Mosley's black detective fiction by the example of series about Ezekiel Rawlins, and also the basic principles and tendencies of this sub-genre evolution from the perspective of cultural diversity recognition. The methods of the research are cultural, typological, psychoanalytic, narratological. The specific aspects of functioning of characters' identity matrix in its different representations - ethnocultural, professional, gender, individual, universal - are characterized in detail in the thesis. The influence of the historical context and the enhancement of cross-cultural interaction and communication on the transformation of the main characters' identity is analyzed. The problematics and poetics of W. Mosley's novels are studied, the significant influence of African American literary tradition is emphasized. The analysis of the detective fiction is carried out with the account of approaches based on the psychoanalytic, postcolonial and gender critiques. General tendencies in the reinterpretation of the problem of Otherness in the African American detective discourse from the perspective of recognition of ethnical and cultural uniqueness of previously marginalized groups members are discovered, that has led to the reassessment of the artistic and aesthetic value of their fiction in the context of establishment of cultural pluralistic worldview. The study area is educational process.