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

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Ritashona Simpson

Black Looks and Black Acts

The Language of Toni Morrison in the Bluest Eye and Beloved

Ritashona Simpson

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English

Peter Lang Publishing Inc
03 May 2007

Language: reference & general; ELT background & reference material

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.

By: Ritashona Simpson
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: illustrated edition
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 160mm,
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9780820495309
ISBN 10: 0820495301
Pages: 107
Publication Date: 03 May 2007
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Author: Ritashona Simpson earned a Ph.D. in English literature at Rutgers University. She is now completing a master's degree in literacy and childhood education at Bank Street College. She is also a head teacher at the Harlem International Community School in New York City.

Reviews for Black Looks and Black Acts: The Language of Toni Morrison in the Bluest Eye and Beloved

« How does Toni Morrison achieve the 'black' sound of her novels, even though she refuses to employ 'eye dialect, ' which is language that looks black as a result of nonstandard grammar, syntax, and spelling? In clear and accessible prose, Ritashona Simpson answers this question by analyzing what Morrison's language does - how it 'acts black.' Drawing on a range of structuralist and post-structuralist theories of language, this book argues persuasively that Morrison's language resolves what had been a dilemma for African American writers throughout the twentieth century as they struggled to render the oral culture literate. 'Black Looks and Black Acts' makes an important and distinctive contribution to Morrison studies.