The bluest eye

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Mass Market Paperback, 160 bladzijdes

English taal

Gepubliceerd 8 november 1972 door Washington Square Press.

ISBN:
978-0-671-74292-8
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OCLC Nummer:
23826043

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Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different.

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heeft The Bluest Eye door Toni Morrison gerecenseerd

An incredible work

"And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word."

heeft The Bluest Eye door Toni Morrison gerecenseerd

Review of 'The Bluest Eye' on 'Goodreads'

As Toni lays out, "I focused, therefore, on how something as grotesque as the demonization of an entire race could take root inside the most delicate member of society: a child; the most vulnerable member: a female."

A truly devastating book in almost every regard.

Onderwerpen

  • Coming of age
  • African American fiction
  • Eye
  • African American girls
  • Eleven-year-old girls
  • Incest
  • Fiction