The fourth face: the image of God in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye.'

From: African American Review | Date: June 22, 1998| Author: Alexander, Allen | Copyright information

African American woman author and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novel 'The Bluest Eye' contains the most intriguing or perplexing religious references from Western and African sources. Of all the fascinating religious allusions in the novel, the most complex and therefore, possibly richest one is Morrison's representations and references to God. 'The Bluest Eye' extends God's characteristics beyond the traditional Western notion of the Trinity to a fourth face which is posited as the existen...

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