Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”: The construction of African-American women’s identity politics in the 1940s

2013 
Resumen: The Bluest Eye describe los efectos destructivos y las dramaticas consecuencias de los modelos de belleza blanca en los Estados Unidos de los anos cuarenta. La finalidad de este articulo es demonstrar desde la perspectiva del feminismo de raza, etnicidad  e imperialismo como esta novela contribuye a forjar politicas de identidad entre las mujeres afro-americanas en la primera mitad del siglo veinte y su repercusion en la sociedad contemporanea. Palabras clave: Raza, genero, espacio, belleza, politicas de identidad. Abstract: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye describes the destructive effects and the dramatic consequences of the white standards of beauty in the US of the 1940s. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate from a Race, Ethnicity, Imperialism feminist perspective how the novel contributes to forging identity politics among African-American women in the first half of the twentieth century and its significance in contemporary society. Keywords: Race, gender, environment, beauty, identity politics.
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