the bluest eye 最蓝的眼睛(课堂PPT)
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The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
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Background
詹宁
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Toni Morrison
• Born :February 18, 1931 (1931-02-18) • Lorain, Ohio, United States • Occupation :Novelist, Writer • Genres: African American literature • Notable work(s) :Beloved, Song of Solomon • Notable award(s) : • Nobel Prize in Literature • 1993 • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • 1988
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Themes
• The importance of family and community
• The innocence of children
• Seeing versus Being seen
• Sexual Initiation and abuse
•Biblioteka BaiduPowerlessness of Women and children and child molestation
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the Bluest Eye
• Pecola lives with her alcoholic father and embittered, overworked mother in a shabby storefront that reeks of the hopeless destitution that overwhelms their lives.
• She went to one meeting with a short story about a black girl who longed to have blue eyes. The story later evolved into her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970).
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Social Background
• The story in this novel happened in 1940s.Although slave system had been cancelled, Black had been unable to get rid of racial discrimination that exists in every corner of American society. This discrimination is grimly dominant in the mind of the White and the Brown.
• The cyclical nature of racism
• Whiteness is the standard of beauty
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• Although her novels typically concentrate on black women, Morrison does not identify her works as feminist.
• She has stated that she thinks “it‘s off-putting(令人不快) to some readers, who may feel that I'm involved in writing some kind of feminist tract. I don't subscribe to patriarchy, and I don't think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it's a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things.
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the Bluest Eye
• Character: • Pecola Breedlove • Geraldine • Junior • The cat • Louis
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• The story of elevenyear-old Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison’s haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who wanted blue eyes.
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• Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters.
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• Morrison began writing fiction as part of an informal group of poets and writers at Howard University who met to discuss their work.
• Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her.
Toni Morrison
1
Background
詹宁
2
Toni Morrison
• Born :February 18, 1931 (1931-02-18) • Lorain, Ohio, United States • Occupation :Novelist, Writer • Genres: African American literature • Notable work(s) :Beloved, Song of Solomon • Notable award(s) : • Nobel Prize in Literature • 1993 • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • 1988
10
Themes
• The importance of family and community
• The innocence of children
• Seeing versus Being seen
• Sexual Initiation and abuse
•Biblioteka BaiduPowerlessness of Women and children and child molestation
9
the Bluest Eye
• Pecola lives with her alcoholic father and embittered, overworked mother in a shabby storefront that reeks of the hopeless destitution that overwhelms their lives.
• She went to one meeting with a short story about a black girl who longed to have blue eyes. The story later evolved into her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970).
6
Social Background
• The story in this novel happened in 1940s.Although slave system had been cancelled, Black had been unable to get rid of racial discrimination that exists in every corner of American society. This discrimination is grimly dominant in the mind of the White and the Brown.
• The cyclical nature of racism
• Whiteness is the standard of beauty
5
• Although her novels typically concentrate on black women, Morrison does not identify her works as feminist.
• She has stated that she thinks “it‘s off-putting(令人不快) to some readers, who may feel that I'm involved in writing some kind of feminist tract. I don't subscribe to patriarchy, and I don't think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it's a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things.
7
the Bluest Eye
• Character: • Pecola Breedlove • Geraldine • Junior • The cat • Louis
8
• The story of elevenyear-old Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison’s haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who wanted blue eyes.
3
• Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters.
4
• Morrison began writing fiction as part of an informal group of poets and writers at Howard University who met to discuss their work.
• Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her.