1.Brief Introduction of Author
Toni Morrison
African-American female writer
Her novels particularly focused
on racial & gender issues of black
women
Wrote The Bluest Eye based on her
‘real life experience’
Main Characters
Pecola Breedlove
A poor, black girl eager to have white skin and blue eyes.
She becomes insane at the end of the novel
Claudia Ma
Ⅰ. Introduction
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2) Climate
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I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
Muddy water->gold
: The change may represent the improved status of
African Americans after the Civil War.
Personification: “the singing of the Mississippi,”
“muddy bosom,”
“Dusky rivers”
The final line reaf
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The beginning of the Tudor
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison(Chloe Anthony Wofford) (1931~)
Ohio주 Lorain 출생
Studied humanities at Howard and Cornell Universities.
1993년 노벨문학상 수상
specializing in African-American literature
미국 사회 속 흑인, Race와 관련된 문제에 대한 독창적 해석
The Bluest Eye(1970), Sula(1974), Song of Solomon(1977), Tar Baby(1981), Beloved(1987), Pa
Toni Morrison
African American Literature
Born in Feb 18, 1931, Ohio.
From Working-class family
Contacts numerous black community folktales through her father
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction(1988) for Beloved
Nobel Prize of Literature(1993)
Home
Written in 2012
Right after Korean War, U.S.A.
Modern Odysseus : story of a man who goes back to his hometown after the war
Stream of Consci
African people living in complex relation to one another.
- The Native cultures Columbus found in the New World displayed a huge variety of languages, social customs, and creative expressions, with a common practice of oral literature without parallel east of the Atlantic.
- Exploratory expeditions to the New World quickly led to colonial settlements, as the major European countries vied with eac
African-American dread-lock male, and Cheeba
are getting set up in front of the entrance to the
CONTINENTAL NETWORK SYSTEM building. CNS is one of the
fledgling, upstart new networks, trying to battle with ABC,
NBC, CBS, FOX, WB, and UPN.
ANGLE ON
Entrance. Cheeba is putting the portable floor down on the
sidewalk. Manray sits on the curb, taking the sneakers off
and putting on his tap shoes; bot
African sherry
because of the war in Spain.
Good evening, sir.
- May I take your hat?
- Thank you.
Mr. Miles is upstairs.
Sherry, sir?
Thank you.
She seemed restless.
In the summer of ...
the whole of London was restless
in the face of the coming storm.
How nice of you to come.
Sarah, this is our neighbor,
the novelist chap.
What on earth
is a novelist doing here?
- Research.
- On what?
On your h