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Sites about The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

Novel about three elementary school girls, Claudia, Pecola and Frieda, coming of age in the 1940's and dealing with consumer culture.

Characters: Pecola Breedlove, Claudia, Frieda
Keywords: African Americans, beauty

Critical sites about The Bluest Eye

The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_4_33/ai_59024884

"The blues aesthetic is an ethos of blues people that manifests itself in everything done, not just in the music."

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Cat Moses

From: African American Review Winter, 1999

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The fourth face: the image of God in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye.'

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n2_v32/ai_21059958

"African American woman author and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novel 'The Bluest Eye' contains the most intriguing or perplexing religious references."

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Allen Alexander

From: African American Review Summer, 1998

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Ownership and the loss of communal ties in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

http://www-mcnair.berkeley.edu/96journal/lott.html

Critical interpretation of Morrison' novel, "The Bluest Eye", which asserts that "Morrison writes this novel to illustrate how the African American community has lost itself within popular culture's false ideals of beauty and success."

Contains: Character Analysis, Historical Context, Content Analysis

Author: Nicole Gelon Lott

From: Berkeley McNair Journal Winter 1996, Volume 4

Keywords: popular culture, consumerism, racial issues

 

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