8) This is crucial especially for white readers of black texts such as The Bluest
Eye for, as Gayatri Spivak put it, "the holders of hegemonic discourse should .
Indeed, the significant differences in Morrison's authorial image become clear only through comparing the bi bliographic codes in The Bluest
Eye and Song of Solomon before and after their "Oprah" selections.
Characters Incapable of Passing for White in The Bluest
Eye and Tar Baby
Yet, recalling writers like William Faulkner, Ralph Bison, and herself in The Bluest
Eye, she provides at the same time strong hints that incest is the overarching determinant of her small and isolated community's culture.
Referring to The Bluest
Eye, Cornel West writes, "Morrison's exposure of the harmful extent to which these white ideals affect the black self-image is a first step toward rejecting these ideals and overcoming the nihilistic self-loathing they engender in blacks" (28).
In contrast, novels like The Bluest
Eye, Beloved, and The Color Purple vibrated with the struggle for internally based self-creation.
Focusing on Morrison's intervention into the erasure of African American experience from the American literary and historical narrative, Matus calls The Bluest
Eye (1970) "an imagined history of what it is to grow up black and female in the 1930s and 1940s.
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.
I worry that Northumberland is more likely to be spoilt by the nay-sayers, who will always see a dark cloud, even in the bluest
His memoir," Matters of Life and Data," contains his account of applying to join the CCLR, that sanctuary of the bluest
blood in Little Rock.
And in the bluest
of blue states, they rejected Democrats - in Maryland and Massachusetts and in Illinois," he said.
How yellow could the yellowest yellow be or the bluest
The American Library Association has released the annual 'State of the Libraries' report of works most frequently "challenged" at schools and libraries, and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest
Eye' has made it to the list for its language, along with violence and sexual content, the Huffington Post reported.
Rather, the Bluest
Eye by Toni Morrison and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie took the second and third spots because the books both have offensive language and depicted scenes of sexual explicitness and drugs.
The contributors of these thirteen essays examine a range of responses to Obama's presidency, including the concept of confronting continuity or change, confronting race in the Obama dilemma, the anti-Obama impulse in the 2008 election, Obama and the vision of a post-racist America, mariachi polices (the Latino vote), racism in America's bluest
region (the northeast), backlash racism, the future of American racial politics, race and US foreign policy, race and diplomacy in Obama's administration, and Mormonism and the 2012 presidential election.