The Lack of Identity in Toni Morison’s The Bluest Eye" as Bakhtinian concept

Authors

  • Dr.Ghafir AbdAlHadi AbdAli University of Sumer, Collage of Education

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32792/tqartj.v51i6.840

Keywords:

American families, community, culture, High School , Nobel Prize

Abstract

        This study aims to show how she examines the sorrow and anguish of Black women in her books. To ascertain how these standards, repress individuals, this study will also analyze the story and customs of African American culture.  According to many researches conceder The Bluest Eye Morrison’s first novel, the story talks about a victim of white class culture and its advertising. Pocola Breedlove, a young, lonely black girl in the late 1940s living in Ohio, the subject of its insistence to achieve the target. Morrison tells the story of two significant American families. The narrative of two African American families residing in Lorain the MacTeers and the Breed are in love. Holly, Pauline, Sammy, and Pocola are the first family that Breed adores. The Breed's ideals of individuality, community, responsibility, and beauty have all been gone. They are unable to establish appropriate and typical relationships with their peers and the community. The white norms of community, culture, and beauty have won them over. The white class of community, culture, and beauty have won them over. Breed Love's failure in life and identity as a result of the loss of Black morality, ethnicity, and beauty. This research examines one of the most significant American novelists of the 20th century. Toni was born in northern Ohio in 1931. Morrison was anticipated to excel in school because he was an exceptional reader and storyteller from a young age. Morrison enrolled at Howard University after graduating from Lorain High School in 1949. In 1953, after earning a B.A. in English, Morrison started writing her second book in 1969 while she was an associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Purchase. In 1973, Sula was published. During her tenure as a visiting lecturer at Yale University from 1975 to 1977, Morrison published Song of Solomon, her third book. Morrison won the New York State Governor's Art Award in 1986 and served as a visiting lecturer at Bard College in 1988. Tar Babby was published at the State University of New York at Albany from 1984 to 1989. Her subsequent book, Beloved, won the Robert F. Kennedy Award and the 1987 National Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was also nominated for the 1987 National Book Award and the 1987 National Book Critics Award.

In addition to receiving the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature and the National Organisation for Women's "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Award," she also holds honorary degrees from Columbia, Yale, Dartmouth, Bryn Nawr College, and Oberlin College. Morrison has taught humanities at Princeton University since 1989. The family's mother abandons them, attaches herself to a white family to help with chores, and takes sanctuary there as well. Morrison started writing her second book in 1969 while she was an associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Purchase. In 1973, Sula was published. During her tenure as a visiting lecturer at Yale University from 1975 to 1977, Morrison published Song of Solomon, her third book. Morrison won the New York State Governor's Art Award in 1986 and served as a visiting lecturer at Bard College in 1988. Tar Babby was published at the State University of New York at Albany from 1984 to 1989. Her subsequent book, Beloved, won the Robert F. Kennedy Award and the 1987 National Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was also nominated for the 1987 National Book Award and the 1987 National Book Critics Award. Paradise, her most recent book, wasIn addition to receiving the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature and the National Organization for Women's "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Award," she also holds honorary degrees from Columbia, Yale, Dartmouth, Bryn Nawr College, and Oberlin College. Morrison has taught humanities at Princeton University since 1989. The family's mother abandons them, attaches herself to a white family to help with chores, and takes sanctuary there as well. The father, Cholly, rapes his own daughter, Pecolla, age 11, and then flees because he feels negative freedom. In spite of her own brown eyes and dark beauty, Pocolla falls in love with a pair of blue eyes and eventually loses her temper. The story's second family consists of four members:The father, mother, and two children, Frieda and Claudia, make up the second family in the narrative. In addition to protecting themselves against the white hegemonic system's ideals of beauty and community, they have placed their faith in their own black norms and standards and work to support one another, especially Pecola, who is an outcast and insane member of their black community.

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Published

2025-09-30

How to Cite

AbdAli, D. A. . (2025). The Lack of Identity in Toni Morison’s The Bluest Eye" as Bakhtinian concept. Thi Qar Arts Journal, 51(6). https://doi.org/10.32792/tqartj.v51i6.840

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