The Bluest Eye | Social Concerns
In some ways the synergy between Morrison and the emerging concerns of the times about which she writes were foreshadowed by her first, and in some circles her most famous, novel. The social issues of The Bluest Eye lie centrally with the impact certain cultural icons have on the consciousness of minorities. African Americans in this novel are taught to think of themselves as ugly or inferior because of the signs and ideals the culture imposes on them, a position the novel's narrator calls into question rhetorically by explaining the principal family's living in an abandoned...
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