Panopticism and the Deconstruction of the Institutionalized Discourse of Racialized Beauty in Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye
| المصدر: | مجلة آفاق للعلوم |
|---|---|
| الناشر: | جامعة زيان عاشور الجلفة |
| المؤلف الرئيسي: | Berrezoug, Hanaa (Author) |
| المجلد/العدد: | مج10, ع1 |
| محكمة: | نعم |
| الدولة: |
الجزائر |
| التاريخ الميلادي: |
2025
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| الشهر: | يناير |
| الصفحات: | 125 - 144 |
| DOI: |
10.37167/1677-010-001-009 |
| ISSN: |
2507-7228 |
| رقم MD: | 1536660 |
| نوع المحتوى: | بحوث ومقالات |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
| قواعد المعلومات: | EduSearch, EcoLink, HumanIndex |
| مواضيع: | |
| كلمات المؤلف المفتاحية: |
Beauty | Panopticon | Counter-Discourse | Race | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison
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| رابط المحتوى: |
عدد مرات التحميل
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| المستخلص: |
The impact of the notion of beauty on individuals is at the heart of The Bluest Eye. The characters’ admittance of their ugliness is a potentially fatal form of self-loathing and a means of confirming the normative beauty standards that the Whites have established against them and that result in the protagonist’s development of a scapegoat identity. Pecola’s yearning for blue eyes reveals her self-loathing as she condones the normative racialized representations of beauty. Her final descent into madness is the result of the White supremacist myth of beauty. Thus, this paper is mainly concerned with Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye as a counter-discursive strategy to dismantle the already institutionalized racialized standards of beauty. This research is qualitatively carried out on Michel Foucault’s disciplinary concept of the panopticon to show how America built a massive panoptic system around the Hollywood industry. It further draws upon Morrison’s (1971) "What the Black Woman Thinks About Women's Lib" to reveal how she succeeds in revolutionizing the notion of beauty by building consensual empathy towards a little black girl who goes insane because of this panoptic mechanism. |
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| ISSN: |
2507-7228 |
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