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ContentsTITLE PAGEDEDICATIONEPIGRAPHFOREWORDPART ONE191919201921192219231927 PART TWO19371939194019411965 ABOUT THE AUTHORALSO BY TONI MORRISONACCLAIM FOR TONI MORRISON S SULACOPYRIGHTIt is sheer good fortune tomisssomebody long beforethey leave book is for Ford andSlade, whomI miss although theyhave not left me. Nobody knew my rose ofthe worldbut I had too don t want glory likethatin nobody s heart. The Rose TattooFOREWORDIn the fifties, when I was a student, the embarrassmentof being called a politically minded writer was soacute, the fear of critical derision for channeling one screativity toward the state of social affairs soprofound, it made me wonder: Why the panic? Theflight from any accusation of revealing an awarenessof the political world in one s fiction turned myattention to the source of the panic and the means bywhich writers sought to ease it.
commentary on my first novel, The Bluest Eye, by both black and white reviewers that—with two exceptions—had little merit since the evaluation ignored precisely the “aesthetics only” criteria it championed. If the novel was good, it was because it was faithful to a certain kind of politics; if it was bad, it was because it was faithless ...
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