Premium Content The Music and Silence of The Bluest Eye
By Jennifer DeLeo - May 05, 2003
Among Toni Morrison's works, "images of music pervade her work, but so also does a musical quality of language, a sound and rhythm that permeate and radiate in every novel" (Rigney 8). This rhythmic style of writing is particularly evident in The Bluest Eye. There is a struggle between musical language and silence throughout the novel. Song is a…
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