Introduction / Harold Bloom
Intense behavior; the use of the grotesque in the bluest eye and Eva's man / Keith E. Byerman
Lady no longer sings the blues; rape, madness, and silence in the bluest eye / Madonne M. Miner
Bleak beginnings; the bluest eye / Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos
Language and music of survival / Karla F.C. Holloway
Eruptions of funk; historicizing Toni Morrison / Susan Willis
"The evil of fulfillment"; scapegoating and narration in the bluest eye / Michael Awkward
Text and countertext in the bluest eye / Donald B. Gibson
"Will the circle be unbroken?"; the politics of form in the bluest eye / Linda Dittmar.
From the Book - Updated edition.
Introduction / Harold Bloom --
Alcoholism and family abuse in Maggie and The bluest eye / Rosalie Murphy Baum --
Toni Morrison's "Allegory of the cave": movies, consumption, and platonic realism in The bluest eye / Thomas H. Fick --
Text and countertext in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Donald B. Gibson --
Transgression as poesis in The bluest eye / Shelley Wong --
Will the circle be unbroken?: the politics of form in The bluest eye / Linda Dittmar--
Toni Morrison's The bluest eye: an inverted Walden? / Sharon L. Gravett --
The bluest eye: notes on history, community, and black female subjectivity / Jane Kuenz --
The fourth face: the image of God in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Allen Alexander --
The blues aesthetic in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Cat Moses --
Texts, primers, and voices in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Carl D. Malmgren
Focusing on the wrong front: historical displacement, the Maginot Line, and The bluest eye /
"A productive and fructifying pain": storytelling as teaching in The bluest eye / Jeffrey M. Buchanan --
Not so fast Dick and Jane: reimagining childhood and nation in The bluest eye / Deborah T. Werrlein --
What The bluest eye knows about them: culture, race, identity / Christopher Douglas.