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Fiction.
African American Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove??a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others??who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfil… (mais)
Considerado um dos livros mais impactantes de Toni Morrison, o primeiro romance da autora conta a história de Pecola Breedlove, uma menina negra que sonha com uma beleza diferente da sua. Negligenciada pelos adultos e maltratada por outras crianças por conta da pele muito escura e do cabelo muito crespo, ela deseja mais do que tudo ter olhos azuis como os das mulheres brancas ― e a paz que isso lhe traria. Mas, quando a vida de Pecola começa a desmoronar, ela precisa aprender a encarar seu corpo de outra forma.
I have said "poetry." But "The Bluest Eye" is also history, sociology, folklore, nightmare and music. It is one thing to state that we have institutionalized waste, that children suffocate under mountains of merchandised lies. It is another thing to demonstrate that waste, to re-create those children, to live and die by it. Miss Morrison's angry sadness overwhelms.
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
To the two who gave me life and the one who made me free
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Quiet as it's kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
And it is the blackness that accounts for, that creates,the vacuum edged with distaste in white eyes.
But we listened for the one who would say, “Poor little girl,” or, “Poor baby,” but there was only head-wagging where those words should have been. We looked for eyes creased with concern, but saw only veils.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Oh, some of us "loved" her. The Maginot Line. And Cholly loved her. I'm sure he did. He, at any rate, was the one who loved her enough to touch her, envelop her, give something of himself to her. But his touch was fatal, and the something he gave her filled the matrix of her agony with death. Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover's inward eye.
And now when I see her searching the garbage--for what? The thing we assassinated? I talk about how I did not plant the seeds too deeply, how it was the fault of the earth, the land, of our town. I even think now that the land of the entire country was hostile to marigolds that year. This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruits it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late. At least on the edge of my town, among the garbage and the sunflowers of my town, it's much, much, much too late.
Fiction.
African American Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove??a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others??who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfil
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