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Article: The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 1999
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The blues aesthetic is an ethos of blues people that manifests itself in everything done, not just in the music. (ya Salaam 2)
Readers of Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, are often so overwhelmed by the narrative's emotional content--the child Pecola's incestuous rape, ensuing pregnancy, and subsequent abandonment by her community and descent into madness--that they miss the music in this lyrically "songified" narrative. [1] Morrison has stated that her narrative "effort is to be like something that has probably only been fully expressed perhaps in music... " ("Interview" 408). The Bluest Eye is the genesis of her effort "to do what the music did for ...
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