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Morrison, Toni - 1931–, American writer, b. Lorain, Ohio, as Chloe Ardelia (later Anthony) Wofford; grad. Howard Univ. (B.A., 1953), Cornell Univ. (M.F.A., 1955). Her fiction is noted for its poetic language, lush detail, emotional intensity, and sensitive observation of American life as viewed from a variety of African-American perspectives. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), is the


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    Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (literary criticism) » Read Now

    by Harold Bloom. 258 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    -- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature
    -- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism
    -- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
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    Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion (Chap. 3 "The Bluest Eye (1970)") » Read Now

    by Missy Dehn Kubitschek. 203 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, Toni Morrison is among our most distinguished contemporary novelists. Morrison describes herself as a "black woman novelist," and all her novels deal with African American characters and communities. Exploring the entire cycle of human life in a...
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    'The Bluest Eye': Notes on History, Community, and Black Female Subjectivity, in African American Review » Read Now

    by Jane Kuenz. 11 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...The Bluest Eye: notes on history, community, and black...Jane Kuenz In Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye, the Breedloves storefront apartment is...seemingly hegemonic white...
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    Toni Morrison's World of Fiction (Chap. 2 "The Bluest Eye") » Read Now

    by Karen Carmean. 132 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    "Carmean's analysis . . . guides readers through the complex poetic metaphors toward their meaning. . . . Its annotated bibliography makes this book an important addition to academic libraries."—CHOICE
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    The Novels of Toni Morrison: The Search for Self and Place within the Community (Chap. III "The Bluest Eye: Selfhood and Community") » Read Now

    by Patrick Bryce Bjork. 172 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Novel 17 III. The Bluest Eye: Selfhood and Community 31...is central to Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye . Bombarded and humiliated by images...kinship ties, her characters in...
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    Becoming and Bonding: Contemporary Feminism and Popular Fiction by American Women Writers ("The Bluest Eye: A Sad Black Girlhood" begins on p. 168) » Read Now

    by Katherine B. Payant. 246 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Expounding the view that the feminist movement has both encouraged and enriched literature by women, Katherine Payant examines a large body of immensely popular but, for the most part, critically neglected fiction of the period from the late 1960s through the early 1990s, relating these writers and...
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    The Fourth Face: The Image of God in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye,' in African American Review » Read Now

    by Allen Alexander. 11 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...image of God in Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye. by Allen Alexander...intriguing or perplexing than in The Bluest Eye. And of the many fascinating religious...God affect her...
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    The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, in African American Review » Read Now

    by Cat Moses. 16 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye. by CAT MOSES The blues...of Toni Morrisons first novel, The Bluest Eye, are often so overwhelmed by the...music... "...
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    Refiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy (Chap. 6 "The Naked Father in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye") » Read Now

    by Patricia Yaeger, Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, Nancy K. Miller. 322 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Naked Father in Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye Vanessa D. Dickerson 108 Part...Naked Father in Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye." For the narrator of Morrisons...Geraldine in...
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    Focusing on the Wrong Front: Historical Displacement, the Maginot Line, and The Bluest Eye, in African American Review » Read Now

    by Jennifer Gillan. 16 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...displacement, the Maginot Line, and The Bluest Eye by Jennifer Gillan...hyperembodied, Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye can be read as a commentary on the...critique Morrison...
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    The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf (Discussion of The Bluest Eye begins on p. 53) » Read Now

    by Lisa Williams. 198 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    On first consideration, Nobel prize winning African-American author Toni Morrison might seem to have little in common with Virginia Woolf, the British writer who challenged Victorian concepts of womanhood. But interestingly enough, Morrison wrote her masters thesis on Woolf and William Faulkner, and...
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    Writing the Subject: Bildung and the African American Text (Chap. 3 "A Double Code: Language and the Female Subject in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Gayl Jones' Eva's Man") » Read Now

    by Gunilla Theander Kester. 182 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Female Subject in Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye and Gayl Jones Evas Man 73...of clothing. Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye 1970 remains the most wrenching...Invisible Man ...
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    Race, Gender, and Desire: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker (Chap. Three "Racial Discourse, Aesthetics, and Desire in Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula") » Read Now

    by Elliott Butler-Evans. 227 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...author. The passages from The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison are used here...Aesthetics, and Desire in Morrisons The Bluest Eye and Sula , 59 FOUR...Aesthetics, and Desire in...
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    Representation, Race, and the "Language" of the Ineffable in Toni Morrison's Narrative, in African American Review » Read Now

    by Abdellatif Khayati. 12 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...note in passing the scene in The Bluest Eye in which Pecola is raped by her father...from a dualistic perspective in The Bluest Eye, where projections of African...
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    Toni Morrison and the Burden of the Passing Narrative, in African American Review » Read Now

    by Juda Bennett. 14 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...paragraphs and often with indirection. The Bluest Eye, for example, features a dark-skinned...representation of passing for white, The Bluest Eye artfully reinforces its...

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