The Strategies of Overcoming the Look of the Other in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Jeong Hyae-ryung
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
The Look

“Ọrọ, nwa, ẹkọ”, the talk, the look, the education: reflections on a pedagogy of cosmoperception

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roseane Santos Mesquita ◽  
Késia Dos Anjos Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Educational Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Look ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Present Text ◽  
The Way

The present text bets on the power of reflections on a pedagogy guided by cosmoperception. It is a collective call for the enchanted ways of perceiving and relating to the other. “Ọrọ, nwa, ẹkọ”, the talk, the look, the education, insurgent forces that grow in the cracks, just like moss, alive, reborn. That is the way we think about education, as a living practice, turned to freedom. Freedom understood as a force that enables us to question certain hegemonic truths entrenched in our ways of being, thinking and producing knowledge. In dialogue with the criticisms on the decolonial thought and by authors and authoresses who are putting themselves into thinking about an epistemology from a diasporic place, from the edges of the world, we will try to problematize the effects of the epistemic erasures promoted by the colonial processes and how that has affected our educative practices. The look at the educational experience that happens in the sacred territory of candomblé, will be our starting point to think about politically and poetically transformative educational practices.

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.

Character

Portrait ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 51-53
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Nancy
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Look

However the painter, the photographer, or the sculptor also works at pulling the other back from this abyss. But in this case it is a matter of an operation that is entirely different from that of a copy or a cast. The death mask shows nothing more than the look of a dead face—that is, a face that has become a stranger to itself. In certain respects, this look is instructive regarding the look of death—if we disregard the various techniques that must be used to make the cast both possible and acceptable—but it intensifies the enigma of the identity to self....

Discovering Usher

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Evert Jan van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Target Audience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Audience Member ◽  
Emotional Intensity ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
The Look ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Magic Lantern

This introductory chapter provides an overview of House of Usher (1960), which was a part of American International Pictures' TV series The Curse of Corman. This TV series introduced American International's Poe pictures to a new generation. It is the emotional intensity conveyed through the mise-en-scène that sets the Poe pictures apart from their immediate rivals. The Poe pictures appealed to AIP's target audience — teenagers — because their aesthetics were also akin to the look and feel of EC horror comics. More than any of the other Poe pictures, House of Usher is a work of pulp expressionism that appeals to the angst holed up inside the minds of many a teenage audience member. Like a magic lantern, the film projector reveals a series of beautifully crafted, colourful tableau that in sequence give expression to Edgar Allan Poe's vision of human frailty and corruption, and the void that awaits beyond the threshold of life. This book explains why House of Usher has attracted a cult audience for nearly 60 years.

scholarly journals Humanistic training in Medicine through dancing in the hospital: students’ perceptions

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Barbosa Lisboa ◽  
Marcela Rodrigues Ciccone ◽  
Marina Kadekaru ◽  
Izabel Cristina Rios
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
The Other ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Data Production ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Look

Abstract: Introduction: The humanization of assistance is associated to empathy, embracing, and effective communication, being part of the medical training. According to its nature, humanization requires methods that involve affections and stimulates critical thinking. Objective: Extensive literature shows the benefits of the arts in medical education; however, there are still few studies on dancing, the subject of this study, which was carried out by medical students and whose aim was to investigate hospital dancing in the teaching of humanization, from the perspective of medical students. Method: A qualitative action research study was designed, in which medical students performed choreographies for patients, companions and employees in three different wards of the teaching hospital. The action consisted of continuous cycles in the planning of interventions, performance, observing, reflection, and re-planning of subsequent actions, in a systematic manner and controlled by the researchers. Data production took place by direct observation, narratives and focal group. The data were analyzed using the content and thematic analysis methods. Results: For three months, 17 female and 7 male students between 18 and 24 years of age performed the action, producing data that was subsequently classified into 3 thematic categories: 1. Dimension of affection: contents of the student’s emotional character; 2. Care dimension: contents about caring for the patient; 3. Dance dimension: contents on dance in the humanistic training in Medicine. In the triangulation of the techniques, it was observed that joy, anxiety, and the perception of dance as an instrument of bonding were significant. The experience of changing socially-marked places for the student and the patient made the student face and overcome different feelings. The dance allowed the refinement of the look and the capacity to understand the other, taking into account perspectives that converge to or diverge from their own convictions. On the other hand, the students experienced the anxiety and joy of an encounter with themselves, perceiving dance as a pleasurable and humanizing activity. Conclusion: The dance in the hospital lead to experiences and reflections that stimulated the students’ self-knowledge, favored the student-patient relationship, and brought elements to understand the use of dancing in medicine, mainly for the teaching of empathy and humanized care.

scholarly journals Community Photographs

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Janne Seppänen
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Look ◽  
The Town

Abstract The research subject of this article is formed by a project with the title Two Pictures of My Town. The project was carried out during spring 2002 in the town of Tampere, Finland, when town district or suburb communities, and in one case a sixth-form class, were asked to ‘get to the bare essentials’ of their town district and present them in two photographs with short captions. The following research questions were asked: What kinds of visual orders can be found in the paired photographs? What kind of politics of representation is included in these orders? What kind of identity work is expressed by the photographs’ visual orders and politics of representation? The photographs were interpreted through a theoretical researcher reading. Photographs in which the local identity was constructed on the basis of familiar and safe visual orders offered a relatively solid and legitimate basis for local identities. These photographs repeated the visual orders of traditional tourist photographs and nature photography. If the two photographs commented the changes in the look of the neighbourhood, for example the differences between old and new architecture, they offered a more discontinuous basis for local identity construction. On the other hand, they provided alternative surface of identification for those who do not accept prevailing visual orders of the neighbourhood.

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.

POWER AND ALTERITY OF A WOMAN: A BREATH ON THE LOOK

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (45) ◽  
pp. 152-172
Author(s):  
Maria Alice Nunes Costa
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Trajectory ◽  
The Look

This article aims to analyze the power of a woman associated with her otherness as a human being and photographer, who has an expanded aesthetic vision of looking. Her way of looking at the world, life and people is inspiring and has an energy where she is able to look at the other in what is in her, in us. This text was written from interviews with the photographer and editor Arlete Soares, who made herself available to talk about her looks and knowledge. The analytical perception of his photographic work and her life trajectory demonstrate the power of her images to reveal, visualize and translate experiences and knowledge subalternized by hegemonic power.

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