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The Bluest Eye | The Quest for Self: Triumph and Failure in the Works of Toni Morrison

In the following excerpt, Dorothy H. Lee interprets Morrison's The Bluest Eye as a failed quest for self.

One of the more interesting characteristics of Toni Morrison's four novels—The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1974), Song of Solomon (1977), and Tar Baby (1981)—is that each is a part of a whole. They reveal a consistency in Morrison's vision of the human condition, particularly in her preoccupation with the effect of the community on the individual's achievement and retention of an integrated, acceptable self. In treating this...

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