The Technique of Juxtaposition in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume 4, Number1. February  2020                              Pp.203- 211
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol4no1.16

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The Technique of Juxtaposition in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye 

Iman Mahdi Khdairi
 Department of English Language
College of Basic Education
Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq

 

 

 

Abstract:
The current study examines Toni Morrison’s utilization of the technique of juxtaposition in her 1970 novel The Bluest Eye to distinguish the weakest party in the American society and the most vulnerable individual among them. The study analyzes some settings, characters, and concepts, in the novel besides how Morrison juxtaposed two or three of them so that one character, belief, event, or place would seem the most unfortunate among the rest. Morrison trusts her readers to identify similarities and differences between the three families included in the novel; the White family of the Dick-and-Jane Primer, the poor African American MacTeers, and the poorer African American Breedloves by placing them side by side. She also urges her readers to compare and contrast to reach a better understanding of one of the main ideas of the text, the concept that Pecola and her family are the most unfortunate among the Americans in general.
Keywords: juxtaposition, Morrison, Pecola, The Bluest eye, The Breedloves

Cite as:   Khdairi, I. M. (2020). The Technique of Juxtaposition in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies 4 (1) 203-211.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol4no1.16