Synopsis on the Status of Women
SYNOPSIS The status of women in Toni Morrison’s the bluest eye
By Priyanka Bahl Delhi
Under the Guidance of : Mrs. Aneela Malhotra
Place of Work BHARATI VIDYAPEETH DEEMED UNIVERSITY, PUNE, INDIA. 2013 Introduction: Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), Critical Recognition and praise for Toni Morrison grew with each novel. The Bluest Eye published in 1970, tells the tragic story of Pecola Breedlove, a young Black girl growing up in Morrison 's Hometown of Lorain, Ohio, after the Great Depression. Due To its unflinching portrayal of Incest, prostitution, domestic violence, child molestation, and Racism, there have been Numerous attempts to ban the book from libraries and schools across The United States, some of them successful. statement of the problem: In the The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison writes that the novel came out of a childhood conversation she could never forget. She remembers a young black girl she knew who wanted blue eyes, and how, like Claudia MacTeer in the novel, this confession made her really angry. Surrounded by the Black Is Beautiful movement of late 1960s African-American culture, Morrison decided to write a novel about how internalized racism affects young black girls in a range of ways – some petty and minute, some tragic and overwhelming. she focuses on the damage that the black women characters suffer through the construction of femininity in a racialised society.
Significance of the Study: Women do not have the same position as men, though much progress has been made in the society to bring women to a stage where they have equal rights, equal pay, equal independence but still it is not achieved. Though it may seem that women have a great deal of freedom and independence, the overall condition of women in the world of today is not as it should be. Still the bird flies with
By Priyanka Bahl Delhi
Under the Guidance of : Mrs. Aneela Malhotra
Place of Work BHARATI VIDYAPEETH DEEMED UNIVERSITY, PUNE, INDIA. 2013 Introduction: Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), Critical Recognition and praise for Toni Morrison grew with each novel. The Bluest Eye published in 1970, tells the tragic story of Pecola Breedlove, a young Black girl growing up in Morrison 's Hometown of Lorain, Ohio, after the Great Depression. Due To its unflinching portrayal of Incest, prostitution, domestic violence, child molestation, and Racism, there have been Numerous attempts to ban the book from libraries and schools across The United States, some of them successful. statement of the problem: In the The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison writes that the novel came out of a childhood conversation she could never forget. She remembers a young black girl she knew who wanted blue eyes, and how, like Claudia MacTeer in the novel, this confession made her really angry. Surrounded by the Black Is Beautiful movement of late 1960s African-American culture, Morrison decided to write a novel about how internalized racism affects young black girls in a range of ways – some petty and minute, some tragic and overwhelming. she focuses on the damage that the black women characters suffer through the construction of femininity in a racialised society.
Significance of the Study: Women do not have the same position as men, though much progress has been made in the society to bring women to a stage where they have equal rights, equal pay, equal independence but still it is not achieved. Though it may seem that women have a great deal of freedom and independence, the overall condition of women in the world of today is not as it should be. Still the bird flies with
Bibliography: Sula , (1973) The Bluest eye by Toni Morrison (1970)