(The Bluest Eye) [E–book] å Toni Morrison
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FREE READ ✓ The Bluest Eye Pecola es una niña peueña ue vive con sus padres y tiene una prima ue se llama Claudia Le gustan las muñecas y las caléndulas ue no le gustan a nadie excepto a ella Pecola es negra y cree ue es fea porue no se parece a Shirley Temple Y tiene un truco para desaparecer cuando sus padres se Just a few days ago I happened to have a conversation with someone uite a well read person too who said uite casually almost in an offhand manner how he found books written by women uninteresting On prodding him for the reason behind his disinterest he replied that books written by women just do not engage him I didn t have the heart to ask him why a second timeAnd there it sat between us this knowledge of his disdain for women writers for some hitherto unknown reason like a breathing venom spitting invisible monster uietly killing our conversation thankfullyNo evasion Not even a half hearted attempt at rescuing an uncomfortable situation A wholly unabashed flat out declaration made with the confident self righteous air of a reader who knows what good reading should consist of and when it comes to that excludeIn retrospect when I dwell on the memory of this horrendous very real conversation I experience a crushing hopelessness It s not that particular guy I am mad at No He is only a minuscule part of the universal malady afflicting our collective psyche It is this spirited tolerance for continued ignorance and apathy that infuriates me so This tradition of belittling the female voice which speaks of personal sexual gratification love marriage and childbirth of the tyranny of beauty that forces her to adhere desperately to some predetermined standard of physical perfection the right angle to her cheekbones the right slope to her nose the right lushness to her eyelashes the right curve to her hips the right skin color to match her hair and her eyes All of this is terribly uninteresting isn t it It was as though some mysterious all knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear and they had each accepted it without uestion The master had said You are ugly people They had looked about themselves saw nothing to contradict the statement saw in fact support for it leaning at them from every billboard every movie every glance Yes they had said You are right And they took the ugliness in their hands threw it as a mantle over them and went about the world with it So what if she is a Nobel laureate So what if she created the most haunting poignant and unforgettable elegy to the horrors that American slavery spawned So what if she has crafted an eleven year old ugly and unfortunate Pecola Breedlove with the utmost sincerity So what if she has made her ugly and unfortunate Pecola yearn for a shred of love and dignity in vain till her last days So what if she has tried to shed some light on the unloved the mercilessly trodden upon rejects of a community caught in the vicious trap of fatal self loathing So what if she has thought up a newer way to deconstruct the violence of a sexual crime by removing the convenient glamour of shame routinely heaped on the victim So what if she has tried to bestow humanity even on the ones beyond redemption So what if she has offered a window into a world where a million and one injustices compete for primacy every momentSuch trifling womanly subject matters do not mesh well with the reading tastes of a man After all the Doris Lessings and Elfriede Jelineks Nadine Gordimers and Alice Munros Zora Neale Hurstons and Zadie Smiths the Jhumpa Lahiris and the Banana Yoshimotos the Bront sisters and Virginia Woolfs writewrote books for only women to read and appreciate Women can t paint women can t write It hurts to know that the Charles Tansleys of the world are alive and well But thankfully we have the Toni Morrisons to restore some balance
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FREE READ ✓ The Bluest Eye Pelean o su padre la molesta por las noches piensa en ue tiene unos preciosos ojos azules y ue todo el mundo admira su belleza y ue las otras niñas la envidian Pero ese sueño nunca se convertirá en realidad y Pecola seguirá atrapada en la triste vida ue le ha tocado en suerteEn esta pri well i m experiencing severe bookface fatigue and wasn t gonna report on this until i read this cool as shit bookster s review checked out the reviews on for the bluest eye and listed some excerpts Toni Morrison is the most overrated author in America it s only because of Oprah the most overrated personality in America that she is popular You know I know blacks have had a hard time in this worldI m not naivebut there s a right and wrong way to tell us about your problems This book is an example of the wrong way To me it came off as preachy and heavy handed Once again Toni Morrison puts an assortment of diatribes and racial angst into book form and masuerades it as literature with a moral message What is actually between the covers of the book is 150 pages of the gross aspects of sex and femine hygene That is not what makes brillant writing The Bluest Eye does not celebrate the beauty of the black individual but instead simply and grotesuely trashes white characteristics ie blonde straight hairblue eyes So if a little blonde haired blue eyed girl reads this book is she supposed to feel ashamed to have these characteristics I think it s terrible that Oprah Winfrey would recommend a book as anti white as this It s not as bad as some black literature that blames everything on white people but it s close people are dicks yeah not too controversial genocide and war and rape and stalin and the crusades and inuisition and blah fucking blah yeah i know we also have amnesty international and the sistine chapel and mexican food and rosario dawson but you read the above and kinda wish that the fear and war mongerers are right and that iran would just nuke out the whole planet ahem anyway i m not here to answer the jackass prickfucks who find the bluest eye to be racist or anti white or a masuerade they re just idiots it s this whole oprah thing i mean these are the same kinds of fools who get very smug and happy attacking the literary canon while sucking off eually canonized outsiders such as hunter thompson thomas pynchon DFW etc writers i enjoy but have no illusion that they re any the outsider than is john updike in other words people who feel it s any different to deliberately swim against the stream as it is to swim with it so all you haters of oprah s bookclub a favor please just SHUT UP ALREADY or is it just so irritating that oprah put leo tolstoy on the nytimes best seller list and faulkner and garcia maruez yeah that s some evil shit i mean getting hockey moms to read the road rather than some shit with fabio on the cover sorry hockey moms has gotta be up there with the alien and sedition act in terms of evils perpetrated on the good citizens of this country
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FREE READ ✓ The Bluest Eye Mera novela Toni Morrison la ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura 1993 parte de la realidad de una chiuilla desgraciada para tratar temas muy diversos como el concepto de belleza impuesto la voz femenina o la infancia truncada Y lo consigue con una historia dura y deliciosa al mismo tiemp his mother did not like him to play with niggers She had explained to him the difference between colored people and niggers They were easily identifiable Colored people were neat and uiet niggers were dirty and loudThe line between colored and nigger was not always clear subtle and telltale signs threatened to erode it and the watch had to be constantWhile I was not the biggest fan of Morrison s style in this novel I did fully appreciate the dagger sharp insight that she brought to the color caste system that is so prevalent in African American culture even today Her dialogue rang so true I could hear it coming directly out of my mother s mouth my grandmother s mouth and those of all of the women who ve ever filled our kitchens with raucous communal fun and glum communal tragedy alike Her use of the Dick Jane children s books used for decades to teach children to read SEEMOTHERMOTHERISVERYNICEMOTHERWILLYOUPLAYWITHJANEMOTHERLAUGHSLAUGHMOTHERLAUGHLA created a chilling ironic and staggering contrast between the lives of the whites and those of the blacks in this novel Shirley Temple Mary Jane candies and Jean Harlow hairstyles you ll find the delicacy of all of them here both in these characters reality and in metaphor While the truth and injustices here were often sobering to read they were filled with too much truth to rightfully deny or turn away from I could spend hours discussing this novel I could uote from it all day but I won t do that because the entire read was poignant and so crisply aware of the color line the how and the why that there is no one point that can overshadow another in the message that these words aimed to send This novel is older than I am and yet it still rings with such verity with such biting truth and reality With The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison cut open the existence of both internalized and externalized racism in America and laid it bare and exposed at our feet For that she deserves nothing but reverence and applause so she will always have that from meAnyone who s ever been in doubt of a color line in Black America should read this book Anyone who s ever uestioned But why can t I say those words when you say them all the time But why do you still believe that racism exists Why can t you just get over it the past is the past should read this book In fact just read this book anyway how about that