By Debojit Dutta, Sneha Philip In Toni Morrison’s celebrated novel The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, its protagonist, longs to have blue eyes just like the Hollywood movie star Shirley Temple. It was a novel, Toni says, she was “compelled to write” because she wanted to read a book that spoke about the experience of racism and “racialised self-loathing”
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