Loss Of Black Female Subjectivity In The Bluest Eye

This thesis explores the cause and truth of “lost female subjectivity” in African-American women within various living conditions and under the violence of white culture,gender imbalance,and race relations in Toni Morrison’s book The Bluest Eye.The most common symptoms of lost consciousness are interior assimilation,sexual repression,and fractured self-consciousness.Concepts relevant to human sexuality such as love and birth are denigrated – portrayed as embarrassing or even evil – among the black community in Morrison’s work,and especially by female characters.As a tragic result of the societal pressures placed upon them,Morrison’s typical black female characters like Pecola and Pauline abandon their self-consciousness and live like walking dead in a white-dominated society.They lose both their ethnic subjectivity and their female subjectivity in this “compromise” with reality as they fail to acquire the love and equal social status that they yearn for,but instead fall into extinction on both physical and spiritual levels.Consequently,black women are required to reconstruct their subjectivity with the support of black community for the aim of freedom and salvation.