From the Book - Updated ed., new ed.
Introduction / Harold Bloom --
Alcoholism and family abuse in Maggie and The bluest eye / Rosalie Murphy Baum --
Toni Morrison's "Allegory of the cave": movies, consumption, and platonic realism in The bluest eye / Thomas H. Fick --
Text and countertext in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Donald B. Gibson --
Transgression as poesis in The bluest eye / Shelley Wong --
Will the circle be unbroken? the politics of form in The bluest eye / Linda Dittmar --
Toni Morrison's The bluest eye: an in inverted Walden? / Sharon L. Gravett
The bluest eye: notes on history, community, and black female subjectivity /
The fourth face: the image of God in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye /
The blues aesthetic in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Cat Moses --
Texts, primers, and voices in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Carl D. Malmgren --
Focusing on the wrong front: historical displacement, the Maginot Line, and The bluest eye / Jennifer Gillan --
"A productive and fructifying pain": storytelling as teaching in The bluest eye / Jeffrey M. Buchanan --
Not so fast Dick and Jane: reimagining childhood and nation in The bluest eye / Deborah T. Werrlein --
What The bluest eye knows about them: culture, race, identity / Christopher Douglas.
