![]() ![]() ![]() Morrison’s Pecola is vulnerable, bereft, utterly exposed, and suffers tragically for it.Īsali Solomon’s debut novel Disgruntled (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) answers Morrison’s in more ways than one. She points to the “reclamation of racial beauty” that was so central to the cultural activism of the 1960s as her motivating context, but she notes that this girl’s story is “a unique situation, not a representative one:” in order to explore more dramatically the consequences of internalized racism and sexism, Morrison deprives her protagonist of a supportive family from which she might draw strength. In the foreword to her debut novel The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison describes how she came to write her classic story of an isolated black girl’s disavowal of blackness. ![]()
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