Baker, Houston A. “To Move without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison’s Trueblood Episode.” PMLA, vol. 98, no. 5, 1983, 828–845. JSTOR,  www.jstor.org/stable/462262.

I found this journal article by searching the terms “Houston Baker Trueblood” on Google Scholar through the Hunter Library Portal. This was the first result. I was nudged in the direction of this source by Professor Allred, who noted this is a classic reading of the Trueblood episode.

Doane, Janice and Devon Hodges. Telling Incest: Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire. The University of Michigan Press, 2001. Print.

I found this book through a journal article that I found on JSTOR entitled “Anatomy of Rape,” which mentioned that this book analyzes both Invisible Man and The Bluest Eye. After only finding reviews of the book by searching its title on JSTOR, I then found a sizeable preview through Google Scholar. I’m not sure yet which page numbers will be relevant, so I will add those to my citation later.

Grogan, Christine. “Morrison Responds to the Psychological Community in The Bluest Eye.”  Father-Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Complex Trauma  of the Wound and the Voiceless. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2016. 75-94. EBSCOhost,  search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2016383186&site=ehost-liVe.

I found this book chapter by searching “the bluest eye” in MLA International Bibliography. I limited the publication date to articles from 2000 onward, since the two other sources I had found thus far were from before 2000, so I wanted a good mix of older and more recent sources. MLA International Bibliography showed that Hunter does not own a copy of the book, but linked me to a Google Books preview which contains most of the chapter on The Bluest Eye.

Koopman, Emy. “Incestuous Rape, Abjection, and the Colonization of Psychic Space in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 49, no. 3, July 2013, 303–315. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2013394547&site=ehost-live.

I found this journal article through the same search of “the bluest eye” in MLA International Bibliography, with only results from 2000 to now. The search returned 153 results in total and this source was located on the second page of results.

Zender, Karl F. “Faulkner and the Politics of Incest.” American Literature, vol. 70, no. 4, 1998, 739–765. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2902390.

I found this journal article by searching “doubling and incest” on Google Scholar through the Hunter Library Portal. This was the fourth result. I had originally been searching for J.T. Irwin’s book Doubling and incest/repetition and revenge: A speculative reading of Faulkner, as suggested by Professor Allred. However, Hunter does not have access to a full copy of the book. Zender’s work comments on both Irwin and Faulkner, so it is slightly more recent and could also be useful.

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