Authors :
M. MARIA JERMANUS JOSEPH; Dr. R. SHANTHI
Volume/Issue :
Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 2 - February
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6161838
Abstract :
This paper examines the role of thought in the
construction of African-American women’s identity and
subjectivity. Toni Morrison’s work The Bluest Eye
attempts to redefine beauty and the psychological health
of black women via reflection. Her first work, The Bluest
Eye, has been read by a variety of critics. The novel can
be used to examine the role of gaze in the formation of
identity and the sound assessment of coiffure Yankee
females. She has attempted to redefine beauty as well as
black women’s psychological states outside of their
reflected American psychological system and into a racial
believability. Within the mind, the psychological
condition creates a sense of self-loathing and inferiority.
And it is in this instance that the search for one’s own
identity begins. The most humiliating situation for
someone is when she is ignored since she is not visible to
the audience. That is exactly what happens to the novel’s
protagonist. However, the book demonstrates how white
civilization constructed its own definition of beauty,
which is then universalized for people of various colours,
societies, and races. However, a character like Claudia,
one of the novel’s narrators, demonstrates the path to a
more healthy future for blacks. Wherever the expectation
of triumph operates, Morrison displays her daughter
from zero image (Pecola) to freelancing uniqueness
(Claudia).
Keywords :
Beauty, Racism, Suppression, Freedom, Identity, Psychology.
This paper examines the role of thought in the
construction of African-American women’s identity and
subjectivity. Toni Morrison’s work The Bluest Eye
attempts to redefine beauty and the psychological health
of black women via reflection. Her first work, The Bluest
Eye, has been read by a variety of critics. The novel can
be used to examine the role of gaze in the formation of
identity and the sound assessment of coiffure Yankee
females. She has attempted to redefine beauty as well as
black women’s psychological states outside of their
reflected American psychological system and into a racial
believability. Within the mind, the psychological
condition creates a sense of self-loathing and inferiority.
And it is in this instance that the search for one’s own
identity begins. The most humiliating situation for
someone is when she is ignored since she is not visible to
the audience. That is exactly what happens to the novel’s
protagonist. However, the book demonstrates how white
civilization constructed its own definition of beauty,
which is then universalized for people of various colours,
societies, and races. However, a character like Claudia,
one of the novel’s narrators, demonstrates the path to a
more healthy future for blacks. Wherever the expectation
of triumph operates, Morrison displays her daughter
from zero image (Pecola) to freelancing uniqueness
(Claudia).
Keywords :
Beauty, Racism, Suppression, Freedom, Identity, Psychology.
