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Intertextual relationships in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

Year 2015, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 156 - 162, 03.03.2015
https://doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.106406

Abstract

Toni Morrison is mostly known for frequently bringing up the problems of African-American people living in the US and of the black women in particular and social issues like racism, discrimination, feminism and male domination. She is also famous for revealing starkly the lives of African American society within dominant American culture from past to present. Morrison strengthens her fiction by establishing a close relationship between her stories and various texts as a significant characteristic feature of the postmodern period that she also belongs to. This close relationship can obviously be seen in The Bluest Eye which is the first novel of Morrison. In The Bluest Eye, she shows how the incidents that are the symbols of happiness for white society affect the African-American people by referring to a famous child story Dick-and-Jane that is well-known for American society. Furthermore, entitling the chapters of the novel as a season, she negates the features which people associates with seasons for African people living in the US. This study aims to examine the intertextual relationships in The Bluest Eye.

 

Keywords: Intertextuality, Postmodernism, Toni Morrison, African-American society

References

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Year 2015, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 156 - 162, 03.03.2015
https://doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.106406

Abstract

References

  • Bishop, J. (1993). Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Explicator, 51, 52-255.
  • Christian, B. (1986). Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers. New York: Pergamon Press.
  • Dittmar, L. (1990). Will the Cycle be Unbroken? The Politics of Form in The Bluest Eye. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 23, 132-157.
  • Genette, G. (1980). Narrative Discourse. New York: Ithaca Cornell University Press,
  • Gillan, J. (2002). Focusing on the Wrong Front: Historical Displacement, Maginot Line and the Bluest Eye. African American Review, 36, 283-296.
  • Kewes, P. (1992). Intratextual Text Interation and Cultural Reinterpretation in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 24, 47-56.
  • Klotman, P. R. (1979). Dick-and-Jane and the Shirley Temple Sensibility in the Bluest Eye. Black American Literature Forum,13, 123-125.
  • Lee, D. H., & Evans, M. (Eds.). (1985). the Quest for Self: Triumph and Failure in the Works of Toni Morrison. London&Sydney: Pluto Press.
  • Morrison, T. (2007). The Bluest Eye. New York: Vintage Books.
  • Walker, J. & Chaplin, S. (1997). Visual Culture: An Introduction. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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Primary Language English
Journal Section Makaleler
Authors

Bülent Cercis Tanrıtanır

Kıvılcım Uzun This is me

Publication Date March 3, 2015
Published in Issue Year 2015 Volume: 1 Issue: 1

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APA Tanrıtanır, B. C., & Uzun, K. (2015). Intertextual relationships in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research, 1(1), 156-162. https://doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.106406
AMA Tanrıtanır BC, Uzun K. Intertextual relationships in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research. March 2015;1(1):156-162. doi:10.24289/ijsser.106406
Chicago Tanrıtanır, Bülent Cercis, and Kıvılcım Uzun. “Intertextual Relationships in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research 1, no. 1 (March 2015): 156-62. https://doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.106406.
EndNote Tanrıtanır BC, Uzun K (March 1, 2015) Intertextual relationships in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research 1 1 156–162.
IEEE B. C. Tanrıtanır and K. Uzun, “Intertextual relationships in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”, International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 156–162, 2015, doi: 10.24289/ijsser.106406.
ISNAD Tanrıtanır, Bülent Cercis - Uzun, Kıvılcım. “Intertextual Relationships in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research 1/1 (March 2015), 156-162. https://doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.106406.
JAMA Tanrıtanır BC, Uzun K. Intertextual relationships in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research. 2015;1:156–162.
MLA Tanrıtanır, Bülent Cercis and Kıvılcım Uzun. “Intertextual Relationships in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015, pp. 156-62, doi:10.24289/ijsser.106406.
Vancouver Tanrıtanır BC, Uzun K. Intertextual relationships in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research. 2015;1(1):156-62.