Modes of Social Domination vs Self-Aversion and Self-Assertion in Toni Morrison s The Blueest Eye

The Daily Telegraph considered The Bluest Eye “A fine book. A lament for all starved and stunted children everywhere.” The New York Times described the book as ‘an inquiry into the reasons why beauty gets wasted.” It also found the book to be charged with pain and wonder. The starved and stunted child whose beauty gets wasted is Pocola Breedlove and this paper tries to analyze the modes of social dominations that caused self-aversion in her, while those with the power of self-assertion were able to resist the undermining impacts of social dominations. The debilitating social forces enfeebled Pocola and brought about a complete and irrevocable doom of devastation of the self.

Keywords:
Social Domination, Self-Aversion, Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye