Transcending “the Bluest Eye” : An Analysis of Toni Morrison’s Body Beauty

Jiang, Xinxin

doi:10.1080/25723618.2007.12015613

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“…Mankhia and Alhusseini tried their best to simplify stylistically how polyphony is contextualized in Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Jiang (2007) discussed Toni Morrison's Body Beauty in The Bluest Eye. Smith (2000) examined Irony, metaphor, and whiteness in The Bluest Eye (Mankhia & Alhusseini, 2020).…”

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Analyzing Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye in Terms of Bakhtin’s Notion of “Heteroglossia”

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Hammouri

2022

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This study aims at investigating the nature of Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia, in Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, and how heteroglossia is achieved in Pecola Breedlove's interaction with others in terms of beauty and personal aspiration in the novel. Pecola is the protagonist of the novel, The Bluest Eye. The study’s main argument is whether heteroglossia has a significant role in revealing the hidden and implied intentions and meaning in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye in terms of beauty and personal aspiration. In order to prove the main argument of this paper, the researcher discusses Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia and attempts to apply it to Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. The study illustrates Bakhtin's celebration of the novel as a genre defined by its dimensions to include verified and multiple meanings best expressed in Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye due to the novel's Chapterization, the narrators' voice, and Pecola’s recognition of beauty standards. The paper also shows how Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is being categorized as a dialogic novel according to its heteroclite structure, and the narrator’s voice.

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“…According to Jiang, the lie of body beauty colluded by the gender discourse and race discourse in the patriarchal system damages Pecola's fragile and feeble heart and anesthetizes the delicate mind of the black community members (Jiang, 2007).…”

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Analyzing Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye in Terms of Bakhtin’s Notion of “Heteroglossia”

Dakamsih

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2022

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Transcending “the Bluest Eye” : An Analysis of Toni Morrison’s Body Beauty

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Analyzing Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye in Terms of Bakhtin’s Notion of “Heteroglossia”

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