論彤妮摩里生之〈最藍的眼睛〉中黑人自我的找尋與認同

To Have a (Re-) Visional Eye/I: A Passage from "White Authentication of Blackness to Black Self-authentication" in Morrison's the Bluest Eye

王淑雱(Shu-Fang Wang)

《高雄師大學報》 18期 (2005/06) Pp. 119-131

https://doi.org/10.7060/KNUJ.200506.0119

摘要

在西方／白人的霸權文化下，黑人的文化與自我認同的價值總被視為是除之欲快的「他者」。當代美籍非裔女作家彤妮摩里生在〈最藍的眼睛〉中便對於黑人的文化與自我認同價值的邊陲化有所批判。作者透過一個黑人小女孩如何在西方／白人文化價值的漂白下盲目地否定自我的〈黑人〉認同與價值，且一昧渴望擁有藍眼睛終致發瘋的悲慘故事，指出黑人文化與自我認同價值消失／音於主流／白人文化的危機，進而強調重尋黑人的文化與自我認同價值的迫切性與重要性。

關鍵字

1.彤妮摩里生 ； 2.西方／白人霸權 ； 3.非裔美籍 ； 4.種族歧視 ； 5.自我重認同

並列摘要

Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), which explores a rejected black girl's vain quest for the bluest eye, has been (mis) read as dark and bleak. However, Morrison's writing ”out” the bleak tragedy of a young black girl caused by the white authentication of blackness is not only to cry out her anger at the racial discrimination imposed upon her people, but to write black self-authentication ”in” the intelligible zone or in the literary canons in which the positive images of blacks are usually silenced. Thus, the aim of this paper is to (re) read The Bluest Eye as one of Afro-American (op) positional discourses to the white hegemonic culture. By prosecuting a careful investigation on the subtle dynamics of the inter- and intra-racial oppression, Morrison intends to dc-mystify the white mythology and then to awaken her people to the importance of their self-(re) discovery.

並列關鍵字

Toni Morrison ； white hegemonic culture ； Afro-American ； racial discrimination ； self-re discovery

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