The Bluest Eye

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The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s debut novel, a seminal work of African American literature that explores themes of race, beauty, and identity through the tragic story of a young Black girl in 1940s Ohio.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf debut novel
novel
adaptation stage adaptation
author Toni Morrison
awarded Ohioana Book Award for Fiction
character Cholly Breedlove
Pauline Breedlove
controversy frequent book challenges in U.S. schools
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstEditionFormat hardcover
genre African-American literature
literary fiction
tragic novel
hasForm prose
hasISBN 0-03-008148-7
includedIn American literary canon
literaryMovement African-American literature
postmodern literature
mainCharacter Claudia MacTeer
Frieda MacTeer
Pecola Breedlove
narrativePerspective first-person narration
third-person narration
narrator Claudia MacTeer
notableFor critique of Eurocentric beauty ideals
exploration of Black girlhood
originalLanguage English
publicationYear 1970
publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston
settingCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
settingPeriod 1940s
settingPlace Lorain, Ohio, United States
surface form: Lorain, Ohio
structure nonlinear narrative
subjectMatter African-American girls
Black communities in the Midwest
taughtIn high school curricula
university literature courses
theme Black identity
assimilation
beauty standards
child abuse
colorism
family dysfunction
internalized racism
poverty
psychological trauma
racism
sexual violence
white supremacy

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Chloe notableWork The Bluest Eye
subject surface form: Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
Toni Morrison notableWork The Bluest Eye