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100 1 Morrison, Toni,|eauthor.
245 14 The bluest eye /|cToni Morrison, with an afterword by the
author.
264 1 New York :|bPlume,|c2005.
264 4 |c©1970
300 215 pages ;|c22 cm.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
490 1 Plume essential editions
500 Originally published: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
520 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. The story of eleven-year-old
Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison's
haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood
friend who wanted blue eyes. Shunned by the town's
prosperous black families, as well as its white families,
Pecola lives with her alcoholic father and embittered,
overworked mother in a shabby two-room storefront that
reeks of the hopeless destitution that overwhelms their
lives. In awe of her clean well-groomed schoolmates, and
certain of her own intense ugliness, Pecola tries to make
herself disappear as she wishes fervently, desperately for
the blue eyes of a white girl. In her afterward to this
novel, Morrison writes of the little girl she once knew:
"Beauty was not simply something to behold, it was
something one could do. The Bluest Eye was my effort to
say something about that; to say something about why she
had not, or possibly never would have, the experience of
what she possessed and also why she prayed for so radical
an alteration. Implicit in her desire was racial self-
loathing. And twenty-years later I was still wondering
about how one learns that. Who told her? Who made her feel
that it was better to be a freak that what she was? Who
had looked at her and found her so wanting, so small a
weight on the beauty scale? The novel pecks away at the
gaze that condemned her."
650 0 African Americans|zOhio|vFiction.
650 0 Girls|zOhio|vFiction.
650 0 African American girls|vFiction.
650 0 Color of eyes|vFiction.
650 0 Bildungsromans|vFiction.
650 0 Racism|vFiction.
650 0 Race discrimination|vFiction.
650 7 Racism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01086616
650 7 Color of eyes.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00868592
650 7 Bildungsromans.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00831688
650 7 African American girls.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00799183
650 7 African Americans.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00799558
650 7 Girls.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00942866
651 0 Ohio|vFiction.
651 7 Ohio.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01205075
655 7 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655 7 Fiction.|2lcgft
830 0 Essential editions.
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