Ready Reference Treatise: The Bluest Eye

By Raja Sharma

“The Bluest Eye” by Nobel Prize winning American author Toni Morrison was first published in 1970. While writing this novel, Toni Morrison was teaching at Howard University and raising her two sons on her own.

The story covers the time period of about one year; it revolves around the life of a young black girl named Pecola. The story is set in the time period after the Great Depression.

Pecola develops an inferiority complex resulting from her complexion in Lorain, Ohio, against the backdrop of America’s Midwest in that period.
The narrator of the parts of the story is Claudia MacTeer. The story is told from her perspective first as a child and then as an adult. It is also told from the perspective of a third person, omniscient viewpoint.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Jan 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301563937

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: The Bluest Eye

Raja Sharma

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Raja Sharma

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Chapter One: Introduction to The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye by Nobel Prize winning American author Toni Morrison was first published in 1970. While writing this novel, Toni Morrison was teaching at Howard University and raising her two sons on her own.

The story covers the time period of about one year; it revolves around the life of a young black girl named Pecola. The story is set in the time period after the Great Depression.

Pecola develops an inferiority complex resulting from her complexion in Lorain, Ohio, against the backdrop of America’s Midwest in that period.

The narrator of the parts of the story is Claudia MacTeer. The story is told from her perspective first as a child and then as an adult. It is also told from the perspective of a third person, omniscient viewpoint.

The book has been many schools and libraries, for it deals with the controversial nature of subjects like racism, incest, and child molestation.

The story has a very clear historical context, but its literary context is quite complex. Toni Morrison seems to be highly influenced by the works of Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, for she uses the modernist techniques of stream of consciousness, multiple perspectives, and purposeful fragmentation.

The story fundamentally is a part of a black cultural tradition and it endeavors to present a very distinct black literature.

The author has infused the prose with black musical traditions. The language is black vernacular, which teems with phrases and figures of speech which happen to be unique to the community in which