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Article: Morrison's The Bluest Eye.(Toni Morrison)(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- The Explicator
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye presents readers with a variety of thematic concerns, including dealing with or repressing guilt, shame, and violence; coming to terms with society's image of ideal beauty (both feminine and masculine); racial self-loathing; and, in a narrative sense, dealing with memories of the past that correspond to those themes. Claudia, the novel's narrator, reflects on one summer of her childhood, relating to readers her sense of shame and guilt over the incestuous rape of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Although most criticism of the novel focuses on Pecola's life, as filtered through Claudia's memory-narrative, Morrison gives readers a subtle clue ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Bluest Eye, The
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature;
700+ words
... ... narrated through the eyes and voice of Claudia McTeer, whose narrative shifts the reader ... and African American girls were not. Claudia then proceeds to tell not only a story ... seduced by fraudulent characters like Soaphead Church, the bootleg preacher who, out of sympathy ...
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