"The Bluest Eye": Map and Data
Notes:
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.
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, especially for the Breedlove family, 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)