Blended Narrative in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

Abstract

Noble prize winner Toni Morrison has achieved a place in the annals of world literature. One of her best-known novels The Bluest Eye has always surprised the critics. The innovation in terms of narrative using different techniques that can be defined as blended narrative has been the concern for her major critics. This article makes the analysis of this narrative techniques and innovations employed by Toni Morison in her literary masterpiece, The Bluest Eye. This article defends the different narrative techniques employed and their proper purpose at a particular time. The author has used Dick and Jane primer as an epigraph to the novel in three different ways and as ironical titles to different chapters. The author has used different narrators to serve the specific purposes. The novel begins with Claudia as a narrator, and then there are sections of zero focalized narrations and some sections of female narration in first person narrator. However, one is surprised why does the writer employ this technique? This article tries to answer this.