Resignification in the African American Community in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula

Abstract

In order to understand the way resignification works within the African American community, in this chapter I will reflect on its critical contexts. Consequently, I will analyze how the signifying black difference, as a theory of African American literary criticism, and three Euro-American literary critical schools (New Criticism, Hermeneutics, and Reader Response Criticism) relate to the interpretation of literary texts... (Introduction)