Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index.
Introduction / Intense behavior; the use of the grotesque in The bluest eye and Eva's man / Lady no longer sings the blues; rape, madness, and silence in The bluest eye / Bleak beginnings; The bluest eye / Language and music of survival / Eruptions of funk; historicizing Toni Morrison / "The evil of fulfillment"; scapegoating and narration in The bluest eye / Text and countertext in The bluest eye / "Will the circle be unbroken?"; the politics of form in The bluest eye / Toni Morrison Keith E. Byerman -- Madonne M. Miner -- Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos -- Karla F.C. Holloway -- Susan Willis -- Michael Awkward -- Donald B. Gibson -- Linda Dittmar.
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Morrison, Toni. Bluest eye.
African Americans in literature. Girls in literature.