Essays about: "The Bluest Eye"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words The Bluest Eye.

  1. 1. The Role of Childhood Experiences in Shaping Adults in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye : A Psychoanalytical Reading of the Aggressive Characters in the Novel

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Nour Sadek; [2022]
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  3. 2. Oppression of black women in The Bluest Eye : The interplay of race, gender and age

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    Author : Silje Vattöy; [2020]
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    Abstract : The focal point of this essay is to analyze how Toni Morrison thematizes the oppression of black women in her novel The Bluest Eye. An intersectional analysis reveals how the categories of race, gender and age interplay and affect the characters’ lives. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Psychoanalytical Study on the Importance of Skin Tone in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Sandra De Freitas; [2019]
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  5. 4. Anti-Oppressive Education and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Ala Rad; [2019]
    Keywords : Oppression; Privilege; Racism; Other; The Bluest Eye; Toni Morrison; Anti-oppressive education; Kumashiro;

    Abstract : The Bluest Eye, first published in 1970, written by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, deals with issues of race, racial self-loathing, white hegemony and abuse in many different forms. Implicit in the novel is the dual relationship between oppression and white hegemony, which is embedded in many social structures Morrison portrays. READ MORE

  6. 5. Shopping for an I : Consumer identities in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Alexandra Torsell Starud; [2019]
    Keywords : Postcolonialism; Intersectional; BLM; Consumerism;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates to role consumerism plays when young, black, underclass characters try to build their identities in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give (2017). Through implementing intersectional analysis and postcolonial theory this essay discusses how social positions are read and understood in a mass culture that heavily favours the visual. READ MORE