While serving as a publisher, she published books by several African American writers. ... Her novels are all carefully written to produce poetic phrases and strong emotional responses from the readers. ... In an endeavor to find how the "Blues Aesthetic" interferes and interacts with the reader's perception of the novel, Cat Moses attempts to discover the necessity of the emotional content in The Bluest Eye. ... I agree with Moses' conclusion that in order to have the emotional impact in addition to maintaining the lyrical feel in The Bluest Eye, it was essential that Clau...

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