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		<title>The Sunlit Playpen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps life is not the black, unutterably beautiful, mysterious, and lonely thing the creative artist tends to think of it as being; but it is certainly not the sunlit playpen in which so many Americans lose first their identities and then their minds. I feel very strongly, though, that this amorphous people are in desperate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebottomofheaven.com&amp;blog=4664779&amp;post=4442&amp;subd=thebottomofheaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breeding Love &amp; Gratitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; There is really nothing more to say &#8211; except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; As our celebration of Toni Morrison&#8217;s The Bluest Eye comes to a close, I&#8217;d like to express my thanks to everyone who participated by writing a blog post, reading and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebottomofheaven.com&amp;blog=4664779&amp;post=4361&amp;subd=thebottomofheaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty, Invisibility, and Dignity: Thoughts on 40 Years of The Bluest Eye</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this last guest post in our series, Holly from the blog Cold Spaghetti, reflects on how the lessons of Morrison&#8217;s novel can be applied to her experiences as a New Orleans resident and Hurricane Katrina survivor. See the full list of bloggers participating in the 40th anniversary celebration of The Bluest Eye, here. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebottomofheaven.com&amp;blog=4664779&amp;post=4370&amp;subd=thebottomofheaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Claudia&#8217;s Poetry Notebook: Celebrating The Bluest Eye</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Evelyn N. Alfred honors Toni Morrison&#8217;s novel with creative poetry fragments written in Claudia&#8217;s voice. I imagined what Claudia might write in a notebook about her experiences, if she felt that poetry was the only way she could express her thoughts. The idea was plausible, given how children and adults communicated with each other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebottomofheaven.com&amp;blog=4664779&amp;post=4352&amp;subd=thebottomofheaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bluest Eye and the Legacy of Colorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, writer Zetta Elliott explores her own experiences with Shirley Temple, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and the impact of colorism.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebottomofheaven.com&amp;blog=4664779&amp;post=4338&amp;subd=thebottomofheaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TBoH Poll: Have You Read The Bluest Eye?</title>
		<link>http://thebottomofheaven.com/2010/07/05/tboh-poll-have-you-read-the-bluest-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we move into our last week of discussion on Toni Morrison&#8217;s The Bluest Eye, I thought it would be interesting to get some figures on how many of our readers have picked up this novel in the past 40 years. And for those who haven&#8217;t read it, why not? Filed under: The Bluest Eye<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebottomofheaven.com&amp;blog=4664779&amp;post=4313&amp;subd=thebottomofheaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights and The Bluest Eye&#8217;s Global Reach</title>
		<link>http://thebottomofheaven.com/2010/07/02/human-rights-and-the-bluest-eyes-global-reach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this guest post from a friend of the blog, Xavier Passavant reads Toni Morrison's novel in relation to human rights law and, noting the story’s global reach, even discusses what it’s like to see The Bluest Eye become a “cult classic” in Czech Republic. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebottomofheaven.com&amp;blog=4664779&amp;post=4265&amp;subd=thebottomofheaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Closer Look at Cholly Breedlove</title>
		<link>http://thebottomofheaven.com/2010/06/30/a-closer-look-at-cholly-breedlove/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Doret from Color Online and The Happy Nappy Bookseller tackles Morrison's controversial depiction of Pecola's father, Cholly Breedlove.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebottomofheaven.com&amp;blog=4664779&amp;post=4238&amp;subd=thebottomofheaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the literary descendants of Toni Morrison&#8217;s The Bluest Eye</title>
		<link>http://thebottomofheaven.com/2010/06/29/on-the-literary-descendants-of-toni-morrisons-the-bluest-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Anika from the blog WriteBlack spotlights several writers who have incorporated themes from The Bluest Eye in their work.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebottomofheaven.com&amp;blog=4664779&amp;post=4202&amp;subd=thebottomofheaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Survivor&#8217;s Guilt: Claudia and The Bluest Eye</title>
		<link>http://thebottomofheaven.com/2010/06/28/survivors-guilt-claudia-and-the-bluest-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quiet as it’s kept, not every character in Toni Morrison’s fiction is haunted. Or mad.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebottomofheaven.com&amp;blog=4664779&amp;post=4136&amp;subd=thebottomofheaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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