Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intense Behaviors: The Use of the Grotesque in The Bluest Eye and Eva's Man by Keith E. Byerman -- Lady No Longer Sings the Blues: Rape, Madness, and Silence in the Bluest Eye by Madonne M. Miner -- Bleak Beginnings: The Bluest Eye by Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos -- The Language and Music of Survival by Karla F.C. Holloway -- Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison by Susan Willis -- "The Evil of Fulfillment": Scapegoating and Narration in The Bluest Eye by Donald B. Gibson -- "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: The Politics of Form in The Bluest Eye by Linda Dittmar -- Transgression as Poesis in the The Bluest Eye by Shelley Wong -- The Bluest Eye: The Need for Racial Approbation by Doreatha Drummond Mbalia -- Afterword to the 1994 Edition of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye (1970) by Linden Peach -- Black Girlhood and Black Womanhood in The Bluest Eye and Sula by Jan Furman -- The Politics of Abuse: The Traumatized Child in Toni Morrison and Marguerite Duras by Laurie Vickroy -- M'Dear's Deductive Methodology by James A. Wren -- When Home Fails to Nurture the Self: The Tragedy of Being Homeless at Home by Leester Thomas -- Naming Invisible Authority: Toni Morrison's Covert Letter to Ralph Ellison by John N. Duvall.