LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:3 March 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Racism, Subordination and Collective Trauma in Toni Morrison’s
The Bluest Eye

Dr. Jyoti Singh, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

It is incontrovertible that literary texts and life’s existential realities are inter-connected. Literature is not written in a vacuum but in association to the prevalent notions. Black literature is a literature of social protest. What blacks undergo by virtue of being a black is laid bare by the black writers. Their work undoubtedly, reflects oppression and suffering on the basis of colour apartheid. They have portrayed the male protagonists, laying stress on their exclusive and complex experience in the community. Franz Fanon also mentions this state of ‘nonbeing’ which is ‘an extraordinary and arid region, an utterly naked declivity where an upheaval can be born’ (Fanon 1967:8). This is very true for the male black writers. But when the Black women wielded the pen, they not only emphasized the experience of Blacks but also drew attention to the vital female experience, important to get a complete view of the black culture and their life. These writers hold a mirror to the society, sensitizing the readers, taking up the responsibility of shaking the society out of its complacency.

Renowned Author

In the line of Black women writers Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Iola Le Roy, 1892), one of the leading figures in the national struggle to free Blacks from slavery, Alice Walker, Jessie Fauset, Paule Marshall and Toni Morrison are some of the renowned names.

The present paper intends to deliberate on Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye from the angle of postcolonial thought also taking feminist thought into perspective. Rooted in history, reliving the pleasures, pains and horrors of black existence, her works are prisms of life.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Dr. Jyoti Singh
Associate Professor
Regional Institute of English
Sector 32
Chandigarh 160031
India
jyoti10sharma@gmail.com
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