Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019. Bluest eye.

Morrison, Toni.

African Americans in literature.

Ohio--In literature.

Ohio.

Girls in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 247 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Updated edition, new edition.

Other Title:

Bluest eye

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2007]

Summary:

A child's descent into madness was explored in Eye.

Contents:

Introduction / Harold Bloom

Intense behavior; the use of the grotesque in the bluest eye and Eva's man / Keith E. Byerman

Lady no longer sings the blues; rape, madness, and silence in the bluest eye / Madonne M. Miner

Bleak beginnings; the bluest eye / Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos

Language and music of survival / Karla F.C. Holloway

Eruptions of funk; historicizing Toni Morrison / Susan Willis

"The evil of fulfillment"; scapegoating and narration in the bluest eye / Michael Awkward

Text and countertext in the bluest eye / Donald B. Gibson

"Will the circle be unbroken?"; the politics of form in the bluest eye / Linda Dittmar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238) and index.

ISBN:

9780791096154

0791096157

OCLC:

173846935