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The Bluest Eye.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Grafton 1988Description: 190 SISBN:
  • 0586049827
Subject(s): Summary: Eine arme schwarze Familie wird von Weißen unterdrückt. Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk up this verdict to modesty, or to the Nobel laureate's impossibly high standards of quality control. In any case, her debut is nothing if not sophisticated, in terms of both narrative ingenuity and rhetorical sweep. It also shows the young author drawing a bead on the subjects that would dominate much of her career: racial hatred, historical memory, and the dazzling or degrading power of language itself.
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Bücher Bücher Schulbibliothek BSZ Mistelbach ZSB Fremdsprachige Literatur FS.E MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 9120000102335
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Eine arme schwarze Familie wird von Weißen unterdrückt. Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk up this verdict to modesty, or to the Nobel laureate's impossibly high standards of quality control. In any case, her debut is nothing if not sophisticated, in terms of both narrative ingenuity and rhetorical sweep. It also shows the young author drawing a bead on the subjects that would dominate much of her career: racial hatred, historical memory, and the dazzling or degrading power of language itself.

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