Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index.
Contents:
What The bluest eye knows about them: culture, race, identity / Christopher Douglas. Alcoholism and family abuse in Maggie and The bluest eye / Rosalie Murphy Baum -- Toni Morrison's "Allegory of the cave": movies, consumption, and platonic realism in The bluest eye / Thomas H. Fick -- Text and countertext in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Donald B. Gibson -- Transgression as poesis in The bluest eye / Shelley Wong -- Will the circle be unbroken? the politics of form in The bluest eye / Linda Dittmar -- Toni Morrison's The bluest eye: an in inverted Walden? / Sharon L. Gravett -- The bluest eye: notes on history, community, and black female subjectivity / Jane Kuenz -- The fourth face: the image of God in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Allen Alexander -- The blues aesthetic in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Cat Moses -- Texts, primers, and voices in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Carl D. Malmgren -- Focusing on the wrong front: historical displacement, the Maginot Line, and The bluest eye / Jennifer Gillan -- "A productive and fructifying pain": storytelling as teaching in The bluest eye / Jeffrey M. Buchanan -- Not so fast Dick and Jane: reimagining childhood and nation in The bluest eye / Deborah T. Werrlein -- What The bluest eye knows about them: culture, race, identity / Christopher Douglas.
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