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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 4(7), pp. 132-137, August, 2016 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2016.059
Review paper
The Black Community’s Ideologies Regarding Whiteness in Toni Morison’s The Bluest Eye: A Comparative Study between the American Standard of Beauty and Racism
Farhana Haque
Department of English and Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Brac University, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh. E-mail: dhak_121@yahoo.com
Accepted 21 August 2016
This paper has been written to present the ideologies of black community regarding the standards of American beauty in Toni Morison’s The Bluest Eye. How the captivating ideas of ethereal beauty in the form of whiteness devoured their sense of actual beauty. While they were tend to grab the spurious whiteness, they made themselves far from their ancestral beauty which is blackness. Eventually they have met with the predicament situation and the precious existences became perished. The ugliness of racism came forward throughout the novel and their sense of inherited beauty was sold by the hands of whiteness.
Keywords: American standards of beauty, Racism, whiteness, Black community
Cite This Article As: Haque F (2016). The Black Community’s Ideologies Regarding Whiteness in Toni Morison’s The Bluest Eye: A Comparative Study between the American Standard of Beauty and Racism. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 4(7): 132-137 |
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