The Quest for an Ideal Beauty in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

In The Bluest Eye (1970), the American-African writer, Toni Morrison explores how Western standards of ideal beauty are created and propagated with and among the black community. The novel not only portrays the lives of those whose dark skinned and Negroid features blight their lives; it also shows...

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Main Authors: Maysoon Taher Muhi (Author), Fatima Ridha (Author)
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Published: College of Education for Women, 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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