The bluest eye

Mass Market Paperback, 160 pages

Langue : English

Publié 8 novembre 1972 par Washington Square Press.

ISBN :
978-0-671-74292-8
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Numéro OCLC :
23826043

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Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different.

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"And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word."

Sujets

  • Coming of age
  • African American fiction
  • Eye
  • African American girls
  • Eleven-year-old girls
  • Incest
  • Fiction