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Article: Texts, Primers, and Voices in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.(Critical Essay)
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- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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The Bluest Eye represents a remarkable undertaking, especially for a first novel. In terms of formal features, it might be described as a kind of narratological compendium. For one thing, the novel incorporates several different forms of textuality. It opens with three different versions of its epigraphic "master" text, several lines drawn from an elementary school primer. That is followed by an italicized "overture," introducing the primary narrator, Claudia MacTeer, and the dominant motifs of the work--victimization and its causes:
It was a long time before my sister and I admitted to ourselves that no
green was going to spring from our seeds. Once we knew, ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Bluest Eye, The
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature;
700+ words
...Bluest Eye, The. The first novel by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison , The Bluest Eye was published in 1970 and was heralded for its ... associated with the late 1960s and early 1970s, The Bluest Eye ultimately calls into question the aesthetics ...
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