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The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. The novel takes place in Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's hometown), and tells the story of a young African-American girl named Pecola who grew up following the Great Depression.
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Morrison’s first book, The Bluest Eye (1970), is a novel of initiation concerning a victimized adolescent Black girl who is obsessed by white standards of beauty and longs to have blue eyes. In 1973 a second novel, Sula , was published; it examines (among other issues) the dynamics of friendship and the expectations for conformity within the ...
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Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. [2]
The first book by Toni Morrison to be set in the current moment, God Help the Child anticipated a conversation that has come to dominate Black fiction several years later — that of colorism. At the novel’s center is “Bride”, a confident young woman with beautiful blue-black skin, who turns heads wherever she goes.
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1 de jun. de 1970 · The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove.
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Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.
15 de abr. de 2024 · View on Amazon. ‘The Bluest Eye’ is the debut novel of Toni Morrison. It is set in the childhood hometown of Morrison, Lorain, Ohio. The protagonist of the novel is Pecola Breedlove, a black eleven-year-old girl.
