Introduction / Harold Bloom

Intense behavior; the use of the grotesque in The bluest eye and Eva's man / Keith E. Byerman

Lady no longer sings the blues; rape, madness, and silence in The bluest eye / Madonne M. Miner

Bleak beginnings; The bluest eye / Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos

Language and music of survival / Karla F.C. Holloway

Eruptions of funk; historicizing Toni Morrison / Susan Willis

"The evil of fulfillment"; scapegoating and narration in The bluest eye / Michael Awkward

Text and countertext in The bluest eye / Donald B. Gibson

"Will the circle be unbroken?"; the politics of form in The bluest eye / Linda Dittmar.