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Critical Insights: The Bluest Eye

Table of Contents

About This Volume, Jericho Williams




American Literary Innovation: The Bluest Eye and James, Jericho Williams




Biography of Toni Morrison, Dike Okoro




Critical Contexts



You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover: The Changing Face of The Bluest Eye Marketing and Publishing Materials, Richard Schur


The Critical Reception of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Carol Blessing


Look. And Breed Love: Rereading Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye Through an Afrofuturist Framework, Kendra N. Bryant Aya


“I’ll do it myself”: On Toni Morrison’s Redemption of Pecola Breedlove Through The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child, Rondrea Danielle Mathis


Critical Readings



Avoiding Absolutes and Finding the Midwestern Middle Ground: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye as Midwestern Literature and as Backdrop to Exploring Gray Areas, Marilyn Judith Atlas


Toni Morrison’s Migrations to Ohio for Recovery, Elizabeth Abele


Spatiality in Morrison Contexts: Mapping Racialized Spaces in The Bluest Eye, Charlotte C. Teague


“A productive and fructifying pain”: Fraught Depictions of Girlhood, Womanhood, and Motherhood in The Bluest Eye and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre, Elizabeth Bolton


Rewriting “The Ugly Duckling”: The Bluest Eye and Civil Disorder(s) in the 1960s, Laura Dubek


“Been a slave to the blues”: Voices of Madness in The Bluest Eye, Micah Williams


Sampling The Bluest Eye: Toni Morrison’s Hip-Hop Children, Tyler Bunzey


The Ongoing Siege: Challenges and Censorship of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Amy Leshinsky


“This amazing, troubling book”: A Case for Teaching The Bluest Eye in the Twenty-first Century, Colin Enriquez


Resources



Chronology of Toni Morrison’s Life


Works by Toni Morrison


Bibliography


About the Editor


Contributors