Reserves: Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye

This is a list of books and articles on reserve at the circulation desk on the top floor of Brown Library. Each reference is given in MLA format.

There are three types of books on reserve:

1. Books by the author. Reprinted editions usually have one or more editors as well.

2. Books about the author (i.e., biography or literary criticism)

3. Anthologies - These are collections of critical writings about the author. The writings, by various researchers and scholars, are usually reprints of articles published originally in journals. An anthology will have one or more editors. A writing from an anthology is not cited the same way as a book.

If you don't see what you need here, please check the catalog at Roanoke Valley Public Libraries for more great sources!

Books by the Author

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Knopf, 1993.

Books about the Author

Duvall, John N. The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness. New York: Palgrave, 2000.

Furman, Jan. Toni Morrison's Fiction. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1996.

Grewal, Gurleen. Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1998.

Harris, Trudier. Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1991.

Middleton, David L. Toni Morrison: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1987.

Mobley, Marilyn Sanders. Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison: The Cultural Function of Narrative. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1991.

Otten, Terry. The Crime of Innocence in the Fiction of Toni Morrison. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1989.

Rigney, Barbara Hill. The Voices of Toni Morrison. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1991.

Samuels, Wilfred D. and Clenora Hudson-Weems. Toni Morrison. Boston: Twayne, 1990.

Anthologies
A citation to an anthology contains two parts:

1. The first part is the reference to the particular article, essay or chapter that you are using. It includes first the author and then the title.

2. The second part of the citation will be the reference to the book that the article appeared in. It includes the title of the book, the editor, the publication information, date and pages. The references below are not complete. They only show the book part of a citation. For more information, consult page 382 of A Writer's Reference.

The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable. Ed. Marc C. Conner. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000.

Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Ed. Nellie Y. McKay and Kathryn Earle. New York: MLA, 1997.

Critical Essays on Toni Morrison. [Comp.] Nellie Y. McKay. Boston: Hall, 1988.

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea, 2007.

Bibliography of Articles
Here is a selected list of articles that can be found either in Brown Library or through our electronic databases.

Bakerman, Jane S. "Failures of Love: Female Initiation in the Novels of Toni Morrison." American Literature 52(1981): 541-63. (microfilm and JSTOR)

Henly, Carolyn P. "Reader-Response Theory as Antidote in Controversy: Teaching The Bluest Eye." English Journal 82(1993) 14-19.(paper)

Klotman, Phyllis R. "Dick-and-Jane and the Shirley Temple Sensibility in The Bluest Eye." Black American Literature Forum 13(1979): 123-25. (JSTOR)

Lange, Bonnie Shipman. "Toni Morrison's Rainbow Code." Critique 24(1983): 173-81. (paper)

Moses, Cat. "The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." African American Review 33(1999): 623-637. (General OneFile)

Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo. "Order and Disorder in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." Critique 19(1977): 112-20. (paper)

Rosenberg, Ruth. "Seeds in Hard Ground: Black Girlhood in The Bluest Eye." Black American Literature Forum 21(1987): 435-45. (JSTOR)

Wong, Shelley. "Transgression as Poesis in The Bluest Eye." Callaloo 13(1990): 471-81. (JSTOR)

To find more articles and books not listed here, please visit the Library Handbook for English 112.