Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)

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Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)

• Ramon Saldivar
• Stanford University

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The blueness of Blue and the Law of the Heart

• Aesthetics and the social structure
• Literature and Society
• Black women writers in the 20th c. American
  literary tradition
• Quiet as its kept, there were no marigolds in
  the fall of 1941. BE

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The codes and touchstones of the world

• Foregrounding the trivial
• Backgrounding the shocking
• Capturing the grammar of the discourse of
  American subject creation

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Dick and Jane

• White family primer
• The mythology of classic American life
• The deconstruction of the myth
• The ideology of beauty
• The social construction of beauty

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Morrison Reading

• His business was dread . . . BE, p. 172