African American Women's withdrawal reaction to white standards of beauty :: A Study of Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye by , HERAWATI, Henny, , Dr. Djuhertati Imam Muhni, MA

Alienation and Character Typology in African American and Native American Narratives: A Jungian Reading of The Bluest Eye and Winter in the Blood by Garuba Issa Omotosho

“…From a psychological perspective, specifically, this paper engages in a comparative analysis of the effects of alienation on characters of African American and Native American origins produced by the same system in two novels which have African American and Native American roots – Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and James Welch’s Winter in the Blood, respectively. …”
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Oppressed female protagonists and their survival strategies: An ecofeminist perspective in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple by Mohsin Alwan, Rafea

“…In both Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, one encounters a significant problem regarding the female characters’ responses to and association with the natural world. …”
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The Dreams of Pecola Breedlove and Richard Wright by Lucie Dlouhá

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Strategic Madness: by Ms. Sharifa Akter

“… To deconstruct the cultural perversion of the African-American ethnicity, Toni Morrison deploys “madness” as grand metaphor in The Bluest Eye. The “mad-self” metaphorically liberates the hidden oppressed self to be expressed which can be explained as a resistance. …”
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Tar Baby / by Morrison, Toni, 1931- 384204

“…From the author of THE SONG OF SOLOMON and THE BLUEST EYE, a novel about a white millionaire who opens his house to an Afro-American art historian and an uneducated, contemptuous criminal. …”

The impact of oppression on motherhood in Morrison’s novels by Elvi

“…Born in Lorain, Ohio on 1931, Morrison’s real name was Chloe Anthony Wofford and she has published many novels before Beloved, namely The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, and Jazz. …”
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FOUR CRITERIA FOR LABELING BLACK WOMEN AND THEIR COMMUNITY AS 'OTHERS' IN TONI MORRISON'S NOVELS by Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib

“…Dinamika kehidupan perempuan Kulit Hitam, mulai zaman perbudakan sampai era Gerakan Hakhak Sipil Perempuan tahun 1980-an, yang diangkat Morrison dalam The Bluest Eye, Sula. Song of Solomon. Tar Baby. Beloved, Jazz. …”

House of Fear. Domesticity and Community in Toni Morrison by David Yagüe González

“…From her first work The Bluest Eye to her latest novel Home, Morrison has doubted the domestic space, reflecting in it the dramas that the African American community had to suffer due to the crisis unfolding outside the domestic sphere, particularly focusing on how the women endured these traumas and how they managed to survive – or perish - through the contact with the community.…”
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In principio era il suono. La lingua perduta delle madri nella narrativa di Toni Morrison by Chiara Spallino

“…By way of conclusion, the essay will mostly consider the figure of the mother in The Bluest Eye (1970) and Beloved (1987) through Morrison’s attention to the sounds of language.…”
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“To Enact a Postmodernism of Resistance”: The Transgressive Thought of bell hooks and the Interdisciplinarity of White-Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy by Hue Woodson

“…When mouthed, this radical rhetoric is significantly inaugurated in part by the well-known text, Ain’t I A Woman, but is also launched in particular ways by hooks’s lesser-known 1983 dissertation on Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Sula. What becomes integral to hook’s transgressive thought is a critique of how black womanhood attends to keeping a hold on life, transgressively confronting the interdisciplinarity of white-supremacist, capitalist patriarchy.…”
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Tradução: mais que um processo entre línguas, uma ponte para transmissão de capital cultural by Marcela Iochem Valente

“…À luz de teorias como as de Bassnett, Apter e Hall, serão analisados alguns fragmentos das obras The Bluest Eye, The Color Purple, e A Raisin in the Sun a fim de mostrar a importância da Tradução Intercultural no cenário acadêmico atual e a necessidade da conscientização de pesquisadores e profissionais dessas áreas que possuem constantes pontos de interseção.…”
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<b>Black women’s ‘two-ness’ in african-american literature: can black and white worlds join together?</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v32i1.4767 by José Endoença Martins

“…In Toni Morrison’s (1970) The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove keeps contact with the white world through her assimilationist behavior; in Alice Walker’s (1982) The Color Purple, Celie freezes herself in the black world by playing the role of the nationalist Negro; finally, in Lorraine Hansberry’s (1987) A Raisin in the Sun, Mama Younger joins black and white worlds together when she develops a catalyst agenda, as she moves to a white neighborhood.…”
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Blues\Blank\Black: Performance Art as Gesture, Color, Repetition, Archive by Dell Marie Hamilton, Liliana Gómez

“…Hamilton, engaged in dialogue with two novels by Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970) and Beloved (1987). The performance grapples with individual and collective traumas and memories, with the failure to articulate the past and with the intergenerational impacts of experiences of violence against black women and girls. …”
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“There were no marigolds” by Bennett Brazelton

“…Here, we examine Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, and its rich discussion on freedom as a value and practice. …”
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Post What? Disarticulating Post-Discourses in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child by Delphine Gras

“…This essay opens with a critical context section that situates God Help the Child within and against post-discourses, before examining how resemblances with Morrison’s prior works like Beloved (1987) and The Bluest Eye (1970) confirm that the legacy of slavery still dictates the way Black female bodies are seen and treated in twenty-first-century America. …”
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‘Why Read Literature?’: Appeasing the Appetite for Play by Pagan, Nicholas Osborne

“…Iser’s concepts ‘the fictive’ and ‘the imaginary’ are then placed alongside traditional concepts from play theory to explore an extract from Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye in which the protagonist plays with and dismembers a doll. …”

Using American Coming-of-Age Stories in the ELT Classroom by Elena Ortells Montón

“…In spite of its limited scope, the project reported in this article proved that a conscientious choice of extracts taken from Yang’s American Born Chinese, Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, among others, could contribute to improving language learners’ linguistic and sociocultural competence. …”
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Racialized Beauty: The Construction of Racialized-Gendered Identities in the Works of Toni Morrison by Beatrice Melodia Festa

“…We will focus our analysis mainly on three novels: The Bluest Eye (1970), Song of Solomon (1977) and Tar Baby (1981). …”
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A Necessary Ethics: Bakhtin and Dialogic Identity Construction in Four Morrison Novels by Vida de Voss, Jairos Kangira

“…Reading Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Paradise and A Mercy through the lens of Bakhtin reveals identity construction as a dialogic endeavour. …”
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