While its historical context is clear, the literary context of The Bluest Eye is more complex. Faulkner and Woolf, whose works Morrison knew well, have influenced Morrison’s style. She uses the modernist techniques, such as links of london charm stream-of-consciousness, multiple perspectives and deliberate fragmentation. In the afterword to The Bluest Eye, Morrison explains her goal in writing the novel. She wants to make a statement about the damage that the internalized racism can do to the most vulnerable member of a community—a young girl and her family. At the same time, she does not want to dehumanize Links London Sweetie Bracelets the people who have wounded this girl, because in this way, she would simply repeat their mistakes. She wants to protect this girl from “the weight of the novel’s inquiry,” and thus decides to tell the story from the multiple perspectives. In this way, as she puts it, she “shapes a silence while breaking it”, keeping the girl’s dignity intact. She says that she does not links of london sale want to explain anything to “you”, but something for “us”. (Taylor-Guthrie 238)
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1.2 A brief introduction to The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s first novel. This book contains a number of autobiographical elements. It is set in the town where Morrison grew up, and it is told from the point of view of a girl of nine years old, the age Morrison would love links petite have been at in the year when the story happened. Like the MacTeer family, Morrison’s family struggled to make ends meet during the Great Depression. Morrison grew up listening to her mother singing and her grandfather playing the violin, just as Claudia (a narrator of the story) does. In the novel’s afterword, Morrison once explained links jewellery that the story developed out of a conversation she had had in the elementary school with another little girl, who longed for blue eyes. She was still thinking about this conversation in 1960s, when there was the “Black Is Beautiful” movement reclaiming African-American beauty, so she began her first novel.
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