The Bluest Eye | Literary Precedents
The Bluest Eye takes its place in a distinguished tradition of African-American literature concerned with the struggle to assert cultural and individual values in the face of majority, or European-American cultural and economic dominance. The novels of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Jean Toomer, and James Baldwin offer distinguished male African-American versions of the struggle. Morrison has stated in interviews that she was unaware of the work of female African-American writers whose work attempted similar themes while she was writing The Bluest Eye, but she subsequently...
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