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Black Looks and Black Acts: The Language of Toni Morrison in "The Bluest Eye" and "Beloved"

Black Looks and Black Acts: The Language of Toni Morrison in "The Bluest Eye" and "Beloved"

Simpson, Ritashona

Hardcover

English as a Second LanguageLiterary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0820495301
ISBN13: 9780820495309
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: May 3 2007
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How does Toni Morrison use language to represent race? Answering this question through literary criticism and linguistic research, this book shows how Morrison's language reflects the souls of black folk in The Bluest Eye and Beloved. The book focuses on the way in which Morrison forces language to reveal what cannot be spoken by a black grammar. To achieve the breaking of this silence, Morrison uses rhetoric, voice, and narrative structures not conventionally used to achieve the effect of black English. Students and teachers of Toni Morrison's novels and black English will find this book useful.

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