解析《最蓝的眼睛》中黑人女性的悲剧_英语论文

An Analysis of the Black Women’s Tragedy in The Bluest Eye

摘要

通过《最蓝的眼睛》中的主人公佩克拉对蓝眼睛的病态追求，托妮·莫里森用她尖锐又细腻的文笔揭示了正是来自白人的强势文化侵蚀了黑人的心灵并且使他们遭受了种族和性别歧视。此外，这部作品也展现了在非洲传统文化和特殊的青春期文化的迫害下，黑人女性失去了自由和权利，不得不依照传统文化遵从她们的悲惨命运。黑人女性过度的追求白人文化的价值观使她们遭受了心灵扭曲和人格分裂，酿成悲剧。

关键词：黑人女性的悲剧；种族歧视；性别歧视；非洲传统文化

Abstract

By presenting Pecola Breedlove’s freaky desire to the blue eyes in The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison used her exquisite and sharp literal expression to reveal that it was the White-dominant culture eroded the Black’s spirit and made them suffer from the racial and gender discrimination. Furthermore, this work also showed that under the strong persecution of African traditional culture and special pubertal culture, which made the black women lose their freedom and right so that they had no choice but to suffer their tragedies. The black women were too eager to achieve the White’s cultural values that they experienced psychic distortion and schizobulia, and that was why the tragedy happened.

Keywords: the black women’s tragedy; racial discrimination; gender discrimination; African traditional culture

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 1

3. A Brief Introduction to Racial Discrimination、Gender Discrimination and African Traditional Culture . 2

4. The Reasons of the Black Women’s Tragedy in The Bluest Eye 4

4.1 The racial discrimination in the White-dominant culture 4

4.2 The gender discrimination from the Black themselves 5

4.3 A deeply rooted African traditional culture 7

5. Conclusion 9

Works Cited 10