Resistance against White Ideological Stereotypes in Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye

Abstract

The white dominant society uses stereotypes to exploit the black people. Stereotypes justify the suppression and convinces the blacks to accept the domination as normal. The paper studies how narrative technique resists white ideological stereotypes in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. In the text, stereotypical black characters like Pauline leads a self-loathing life who is investigated in the paper considering the impacts of society.  The paper will analyze how the white supremacy doomed Cholly to engage in horrendous incest with his daughter. The background history of each character resists to identify them as the ultimate culprit and opens up the exploitation frame of the ideology. Troubled actions of differentiating from the whole community by Soaphead Church, Geraldine and Maureen reveal as the outcome of surroundings. The text resists generalization of the whole black community portraying the motives behind their desperate effort to fit into the white cultural standard.