Textuality centersCarlD.Malmgrens text,whileAllenAlexanderdiscoversaspectsofanAfricanGodinMorrisonsnovelisticvision. Ratherthanrepeatedlycitetheculturalcorrectnessofnearlyalltheremainingessayists,IwillnoteonlyrefreshingdeviationsfromcantsuchasthatbyDouglas.ĭebra T.Werrlein emphasizesMorrisons critique of our supposedAmerican ideologies of innocent childhood, after which Cat MosesinterpretsthebluesaestheticasdominatingThe Bluest Eye. My introduction praisesThe Bluest Eye, in agreementwithMichaelWood,butbycanonicalstandardsToniMorrisonassertsthatshenolongeraccepts.Ĭhristopher Douglas shrewdly notes The Bluest Eyes reservationsaboutgroupidentity,suspicionswhichMorrisonabandonsfromBelovedonwards. What The Bluest Eye Knows about Them: Culture, Race, Identity 209 Not So Fast Dick and Jane: Reimagining Childhood and Nation in The Bluest Eye 193 "A Productive and Fructifying Pain": Storytelling as Teaching in The Bluest Eye 179 Texts, Primers, and Voices in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye 145įocusing on the Wrong Front: Historical Displacement, the Maginot Line, and The Bluest Eye 159
The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye 125 The Fourth Face: The Image of God in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye 111 The Bluest Eye: Notes on History, Community, and Black Female Subjectivity 97 Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye: An Inverted Walden? 87Sharon L. Will the Circle be Unbroken?: the Politics of Form in The Bluest Eye 67 Transgression as Poesis in The Bluest Eye 53Shelley Wong Text and Countertext in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye 35 Toni Morrison's "Allegory of the Cave": Movies, Consumption, and Platonic Realism in The Bluest Eye 19
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