The Loss And Rebuilding Of The Black Female’s Identity-An Analysis Of The Bluest Eye From The Perspective Of Post-colonial Feminism

As the first African-American woman writer awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most outstanding novelists in contemporary American literature history. The African-American legend, history and reality are closely connected in her ten published novels, and also she keeps a watchful eye on the life circumstance of the African-Americans as well as their fate during the dual cultural conflicts so as to explore their inner experience and spiritual world. Toni Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye, narrates the miserable life of an eleven-year-old black girl who believes that she is ugly and that having blue eyes would make her attractive. However, the conflicts between the black and the black as well as between the black and the white cultures are hidden in this simple story.As a new theoretical model and text interpretation theory in 1980 s and 1990 s, post-colonial feminism, integrating post-colonialism with feminism, mainly focuses on the study of the third world women’s multiple oppressions after the end of colonialism. This thesis attempts to make a post-colonial feminist study of the black female identity crisis in The Bluest Eye. Through analyzing the reasons of the black female’s identity loss, this thesis puts forward the approaches for the black female’s identity rebuilding. The black female should deeply accept their unique “blackness”, appreciate their traditional black culture meanwhile return to the family with close relation to the black community. By dong this, they can find their value and authentic existence in the white-dominated society.