Toni Morrison: A Teaching and Learning Resource CollectionMain MenuOverviews of Toni Morrison's FictionOverviews of Toni Morrison's Eleven published novelsOverviews of Toni Morrison's Nonfiction and DramaReception HistoriesReception Histories: Toni Morrison's fictionToni Morrison: Critical OverviewsToni Morrison: Biographical NoteBiographical Overview of Toni Morrison's Life and CareerWho Gets to be the 'Great American Writer'? Toni Morrison and Oprah's Book ClubMaps and DataA Path Pointing to Maps and Data Related to Toni Morrison's WritingsAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
The map above uses Voyant Tools' "Dreamscape" tool; it is generated by machine learning tools that are trained to recognize locations when they are mentioned in a text. Some of the locations generated by the geo-location software in Dreamscape may not be strictly accurate (for example, the "Broadway" in Morrison's Lorain, Ohio might be misinterpreted by the software as Broadway in New York City).
One surprise in the map above might be the sense that southern locations are more pervasive than northern & midwestern locations. The south is important in the novel as a point of origin for all of the families in the novel (the MacTeers, the Breedloves, and Geraldine and Junior), but none of the present action of the text is set there. Still, the map above should hopefully show the important midwestern locations in The Bluest Eye, along with the overall trajectory out of and away from the deep south that is described in the novel.
Quantitative
The Bluest Eye has 52,444 total words and 6,469 unique word forms.
Vocabulary Density: 0.123 Average Words Per Sentence: 11.6 Most frequent words in the corpus: like (204); eyes (188); don’t (149); cholly (141); know (140)
