Feminist perspective of Toni Morrison in “The Bluest Eye

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-110
Author(s):  
Ruchee Aggarwal ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Bluest Eye

scholarly journals Hegemonic Domination of White over Black in “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

sjesr ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Irfan Mehmood ◽  
Dr. Komal Ansari ◽  
Dr. M. K. Sangi
Keyword(s):  
Black Community ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
White Men ◽  
The Other ◽  
White People ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Safe Delivery ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
Self Reliance

Every human being is beautiful with his own colour and appearance. No colour makes one beautiful but the white people of America have propagated the idea of white beauty as a tool of their politics to show themselves superior to the blacks. They focused on the colour because to be white for a black is unattainable as it is biological. They also tried to create self-hatred among the blacks by spreading the white ideology. They hegemonized the blacks to accept the concept of white beauty by using advertisements, media, actors and education. They also forced the blacks to be considered as ugly creating the least opportunities in the work places for the black community of America; alienating them from the society and torturing them both mentally and physically. As in The Bluest Eye, Pecola and her family are the worst victims of white men’s politics. Pecola together with her family members is both mentally and physically tortured and tormented to accept the white ideology. However, Pecola and her mother have accepted the white ideology and Pecola has mostly desired to get the bluest eye. On the other hand, Claudia resisted against the white men and their ideology. At the end, Pecola has accepted the baby of Cholly Breedlove as a token of love and self-reliance and both Claudia and Frieda wish to have the safe delivery of it. Therefore, in this article I would like to show that how the white men employed their evil intention of using the colour for dominating the blacks in America as a part of power politics, and also show black people’s reaction toward the white ideology with reference to The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

scholarly journals The Experience of Alienation in Toni Morrison’s Work: Man’s Fragmentation and Concomitant Distortion

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Mohammed Mahameed ◽  
Majed Abdul Karim
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Song Of Solomon ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contemporary Work

The question of alienation has always been a pervasive theme in the history of modern thought, and it occupies a considerable place in contemporary work. Literature in general, and fiction in particular, raise this issue to reveal its influence on human beings and communities. Novelists have been trying to unravel its complexities and concomitant consequences. The paper aims to explore the experience of alienation through depicting the issue not as a purely racial reality, or something restricted to the colour of the skin or gender of the victim. It is rather presented as a distressing state which cripples the victims and makes them susceptible captives of the dominant forces. In the selected novels, Toni Morrison has delved deep into the experience of alienation through her male and female characters, showing the different forms of this experience. The present research investigates Morrison’s portrayal of the issue from an African-American prospect. References will be made to novels such as Tar Baby, Sula, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved.

A Comparative Study of Pecola and Gyanoda: Sex, Violence and Beauty in the Bluest Eye and Arakshaniya

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Sajal Sarkar ◽  
Moshref Jahan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Colonial Body

Saratchandra Chattopadhyay (1876-1938) in Arakshaniya (1916) has pictured Gyanoda, a socially abandoned and oppressed Bengali Hindu girl of 12/13 expected to be married off. Unable to endure the sexual violence and cruelties thrown upon her, Pecola in The Bluest Eye (1970) by Toni Morrison (b. 1931) looses her sanity. The colonial- society-constructed idea of beauty, the hurling insults of her schoolmates and neighbors, the perverted assurance of achieving beauty from the pedophile Soaphead Church and above all the sexual violence that she receives from her father leaves her in a dark world. Apart from her friends, she receives sympathy only from socially unaccepted ‘ruined’ women. Unlike Pecola, Gyanoda was restored to the world of love and affection primarily by her mother, younger aunt and then by Atul, her assumed love. Gyanoda, though rejected and humiliated by the family and the society, was not a total rejection as Pecola was. She managed to live on though not in a respected manner. This paper looks into Pecola’s psychic procedural patterns to show how she becomes an object of perversion and violence, which along with the established idea of beauty takes her to the verge of insanity. A comparative study has been done between Pecola and Gyanoda, two characters from two entirely different ethnicities and cultures. However, surprisingly both the characters encounter social hostility for their common characteristic “ugliness.” The very presumption of beauty, violence, and sex lead these young girls to the different worlds of their own. Black and female identities occupy very real political spaces of diaspora, dispossession and resistance. What is complicated is the simultaneity of suffering and power, marginalization and threat, submission and narcissism, which accre to Black and women’s bodies and their representation in racist cultures.--from “Feminism and the Colonial Body” by Kadiatu Kanneth.

scholarly journals A LITERATURA AFRO-AMERICAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-191
Author(s):  
Lucília Teodora Villela de Leitgeb LOURENÇO
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Black English ◽  
Bluest Eye

Esta análise denominada “Estudo da tradução brasileira do livro “O Olho Mais Azul” acessa Estudos Culturais, Literários e Estudos da Tradução com o objetivo de analisar a tradução além da perspectiva logocêntrica, focando em manifestações culturais expressos pela língua. Neste estudo de caso atenção será focada nas vozes do livro pela escritora norte-americana e afrodescendente Toni Morrison, e como ela desafia os pressupostos brancos, patriarcais, protestantes e critérios Protestantes em que está baseado o contexto cultural dos Estados Unidos.  Nossa investigação toma como ponto de partida o plano linguístico em que Morrison opta por usar não somente a norma culta da Língua Inglesa, mas a variante Black English, um registro  que abre espaço para a diferença.  Neste estudo, a tradução brasileira de The Bluest Eye  em Português O Olho Mais Azul por Manuel Paulo Ferreira é o alvo de análise a partir da perspectiva culturalista.

scholarly journals Quest for Identity in the novels of Beloved and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1183-1188
Author(s):  
Nehdeep Lakra, Et. al.
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
Family Culture ◽  
Personal Relations ◽  
Search For Self

Identity is often described as finite and consists of separate and distinct parts such as; family, culture, personal relations and profession, to name a few. The formation of identity is an ever – evolving one wherein our genealogy, culture, loved ones, those we cared for, people who have harmed us and people we have harmed, our memories of the various phases of life, or the deeds done to oneself and to others, experiences lived and choices made, all come together to form who one is, at a given moment. The black Americans in the select novels are neglected even not to be considered as human beings, deprived of their rights. This article deals with the search for self as to who they truly are in the novel of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and The Bluest Eye. Identity is the uniqueness of a person and when it is lost, the person loses everything in his life.

scholarly journals A Du Boisian Reading of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 121-127
Author(s):  
Sediqeh Hosseiny ◽  
Ensieh Shabanirad
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Black People ◽  
The Other ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
White People ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
Black Characters ◽  
Different Types

Due to the color of their skins, Blacks were always subject to different types of disrespect and insecurity in their society. Among different groups of people, writers and critics knew it as their responsibility to act as Black people’s voice and talk on behalf of them, as these people were labeled as ‘The Other’ by the Whites. Du Bios created a kind of new trend of dealing with African-American culture by innovating the concept known as “double consciousness”, and arguing that these black people were trapped between dual personalities. As an American writer, Toni Morrison carried this specific burden upon her shoulders to reveal all those oppressions Blacks had to bear in their life, like what she depicted in the novel The Bluest Eyewith portrayal of the main black character Pecolla who is being blamed for the color of her skin. This article intends to elaborate some inherent postcolonial traces in Toni Morrison’s outstanding novel The Bluest Eye and examine how European power and white people were dominating the whole system of the society and what kind of regretful complications Blacks had to endure, and at the same time working on how Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness can be analyzed in black characters.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Similarities between Morrison and Tie Ning

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Lin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Parallel Method ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
American Author ◽  
Contemporary Author

The thesis, employing parallel method in comparative literary study and an approach of feminism, conducts a comparison in the light of a lack of feminist consciousness and a hostile outlet of feminist consciousness in The Bluest Eye and Sula by Toni Morrison, an African American author, and Gate of Roses by Tie Ning, a Chinese contemporary author, which illustrates that an extreme feminist consciousness does damage to a healthy feminist consciousness.

scholarly journals Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Bluest Eye: A Cultural Materialistic Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Mina Aghakhani Shahrezaee ◽  
Zahra Jannessari Ladani
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Black People ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
Great Writer

This article aims to investigate two novels of Toni Morrison, Beloved and The Bluest Eye, by a cultural materialistic approach. Cultural materialists emphasize on the cultural aspects and elements of literary texts. They study issues such as race, gender, sexuality, social class, and slavery. In other words, they put under investigation the marginalized people of society, like black people, females, and slaves. In this regard, Toni Morrison is a great writer whose writings are replete with cultural issues. As most of the main characters of Toni Morrison's novels are black people, so it can be concluded that for her, marginalized people of society and minorities especially females, are at center. Therefore, in this paper, it is aimed to emphasize on cultural elements of Morrison's novels, Beloved and The Bluest Eye, and determine what stance she takes toward such minorities.

scholarly journals Race, Class and Gender Bias as Reflected in Toni Morrison Novel’s “ The Bluest Eye

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Dr. N. Seraman Dr. N. Seraman ◽  
◽  
T. Selvakkumar T. Selvakkumar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
And Gender
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