Dick-and-Jane and the Shirley Temple Sensibility in the Bluest Eye

1979 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis R. Klotman
Keyword(s):  
Bluest Eye ◽  
Dick And Jane

scholarly journals White Oppression and Black Resistance in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
MHD Noor Al-Abbood
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Music ◽  
The Novel ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
African American Music ◽  
Dick And Jane ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Beauty Myth

Many critical interpretations of Morrison’s The Bluest Eye are driven by the belief that the novel pessimistically depicts an African American community so helplessly captivated by an insidious white aesthetic ideology that it is incapable of resistance, self-regeneration, or change. Pointing out the flawed premises of these readings, this article argues that the novel presents rather an effective example of resistance to the dominant white ideology thematically and formally. Morrison’s deconstructive rewriting of the “Dick and Jane” primer effectively subverts the terms of the white oppressive discourse and demolishes its ideological foundations, thus paving the way for African American self-affirmation. This is reflected in Claudia’s increasing awareness of, and mounting rebellion against, the destructive white aesthetic. Her rejection of the white beauty myth, demonstrated by her confused early childhood’s destruction of white baby dolls, culminates in a more sophisticated perception of the operation of this myth and in a radical retrieval and re-affirmation of the black beauty and worth which the white beauty myth denies in order to legitimate itself and establish its hegemony. The article argues that the radical resistance to the dehumanizing white ideology Claudia develops is, like Morrison’s formal deconstructive project, quite indebted to African American music and, more crucially, to the rich heritage behind it. The article concludes by emphasizing that in the world depicted in The Bluest Eye possibilities of resistance and chances of survival are vitally dependent on the strength of one’s connection to African American culture and heritage, as the story of Claudia’s survival proves.

Body Dysmorphic Disorder in the Bluest Eye

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (Supplement) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liana N. Beian
Keyword(s):  
Body Dysmorphic Disorder ◽  
Bluest Eye

Too Good To Be White:, A Journey To Lose Identity In Tony Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

2019 ◽  
pp. 773
Author(s):  
رشا مقابلة ◽  
آيه عكاوي
Keyword(s):  
Bluest Eye

scholarly journals African Motherhood: A Panic History in The Bluest Eye and Beloved

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 9-24
Author(s):  
Mukhtar Ahmad Ganie ◽  
Dr. Shubhra Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
The World ◽  
The Rich

Mother is a bonus bestowed upon humanity by Almighty Allah as she can claim all the calamities for her children to make them safe. The importance of mother as suggested by Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) If I (PBUH) would have been in prayer (Salat) and she (Mother) had called me, I (PBUH) would have left my prayer to listen to her first and then I would have completed my prayer. Here it shows the essence of mother, as she is the source for a man to claim the heaven. Nissim Ezekiel in one of his poems says, ‘Thank God! Scorpion picked on me and spared my children’ this shows that she can suffer the pain of poison to make safety of her children possible. African motherhood is a paradigm for mothers all over the world. These black mothers have suffered sexual abuse during the period of slavery to save their wards. They worked very hard and even sometimes murdered their children to save them from slavery and sexual assault from the rich white masters. Same thing can be seen in the novels of this study. This research paper will explore the circumstances that compelled mothers to sacrifice their wards and suffer the pangs for whole life. Importance of motherhood will be explored here.

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