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Article: 'The Bluest Eye': notes on history, community, and black female subjectivity. (Women's Culture Issue)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the Breedloves' storefront apartment is graced overhead by the home of three magnificent whores, each a tribute to Morrison's confidence in the efficacy of the obvious. The novel's unhappy convergence of history, naming and bodies--delineated so subtly and variously elsewhere--is, in these three, signified most simply and most crudely by their bodies and their names: Poland, China, the Maginot Line. With these characters, Morrison literalizes the novel's overall conflation of black female bodies as the sites of fascist invasions of one kind or another, as the terrain on which is mapped the encroachment and colonization of African-American ...
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Article: Unabridged version of Toni Morrison's `Bluest Eye' ...
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September 19, 2000 ;
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