Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Timothy Eric in 'The Bluest Eye' at the Ensemble Theatre (Everett Welch) Pecola is an African American young girl whose own mother ...

Toni Morrison’s debut novel might be her most misunderstood. This essay is adapted from On Morrison (Hogarth). Banned as it’s been, everybody knows what The Bluest Eye is about: a little black girl ...

“Mrs. Bernstein, I can’t believe you made us read that book!” My former student looked at me as if I had committed the most despicable crime imaginable, something akin to child abuse. I felt guilty, ...

The Bluest Eye is also a testimony to the cruelty of the American Myth that assigns blame to those unlucky or unworthy enough to be born not “swaddled in comfort and care”. The hubris of assigning ...