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A Du Boisian Reading of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
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Abstract 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 ... mehr
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.... weniger
Klassifikation
Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
Freie Schlagwörter
Double Consciousness; Du Bios; Eurocentrism; Other; Post-Colonialism; Race; The Bluest Eye; Toni Morrison
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 121-127
Zeitschriftentitel
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2015) 60
ISSN
2300-2697
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)