Abstract:

Since the 1970s, African-American female literature entered a heyday. As the black literature pioneer of this phase, Toni Morrison utilized her unique female black perspective to show the growth of African American women, which once been neglected or unconcerned by male writers in the history. She observed the miserable suffering from the deep cultural connotation and revealed the experience that self-funding and self-confirmation in heterogeneous cultural environment. The Bluest Eye tells a tragic story that 11-year-old black girl Pecola. Breedlove lost herself under the influences of sexism,racialism and the dominant culture of the white people in the American society, so she prays to have a pair of blue eyes which only white people owns.
  This article will study the Pecola’s character and main factors on her character. Through the introduction of her family and the background of the story, we can have a better analysis of the Pecola. Pecola’s pursuit for blue eyes contrasts to the Sula’s revolt of unfair fate; Pecola’s unfair treatment in school contrasts to the litttle white girl’s population; Pauline’s stern and harsh for Pecola contrasts to Pauline’s gentle and soft for the little girl from white family. All of these factors lead to the Pecola ’s character. And Pecola’s tragic fate also represents the lost soul, self-denial of most black women under the strong culture.

Keywords: sexism; racialism; the loss of black culture

摘要：

20世纪70年代以来，美国黑人女性文学步入了鼎盛时期。作为这一文学阶段的黑人文坛先驱托尼·莫里森以其独特的黑人女性视角展现了文学史上曾一度被人男性作家忽视或冷漠的主题——美国黑人女性的成长，并从文化的深层内涵来考察美国黑人女性的独特遭遇，揭示了她们在异质文化环境下寻找自我和确认自我的心路历程。《最蓝的眼睛》讲述了11岁的黑人女孩佩克拉.布里德洛夫在种族歧视、性别歧视和黑人文化迷失下的影响下心灵迷失，从而祈求得到一双只有白人才具有的蓝色眼睛的悲剧。
    本文将对佩克拉的性格及其形成原因进行研究。通过对整个故事发生的背景和她家庭的介绍，展开对佩克拉人物的解析。佩克拉对白人才能具有的蓝眼睛的追求，与《秀拉》的女主人公秀拉对命运的反抗形成对比，佩克拉在学校的不公待遇和白人小女孩的受欢迎形成对比，佩克拉母亲对她的严厉刻薄和母亲对白人家庭小女孩的温柔体贴形成对比，这些都成了佩克拉性格的形象因素，而她的悲惨命运也代表了许多黑人女性在强势文化之下的心灵迷失、自我否定。

关键词：性别歧视；种族歧视； 黑人文化的迷失

Introduction
    Prior to the 1960s, black literature, mainly refers to the literature created and read by black male. This situation has never been changed since the prosperity of black female literature, specially one of the most famous and prominent black women writers--Toni Morrison, the winner of the Nobel Price for Literature in 1993, is the first writer of black American to obtain Nobel Price for Literature since 1938. Toni Morrison was born in Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, a small Midwestern steel-mill town, which she often used as the setting of her earlier novels. She wrote the forgotten history of black women with her extraordinary narrative ability, creativity and observation. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters. Her works, most concerned with black female’s life, spiritual world and destiny, root deeply in the reality of the black human beings searching for living space and self-identity under the pressure of the white human beings values.