مجلة علوم اللغة العربية وآدابها
Volume 18, Numéro 1, Pages 578-602
2026-03-15
The Uncanny Mirror: Mimicry, Affect, And The Colonization Of Desire In Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Authors : Mekhaznia Wafa . Kaouli Nadhir . Halimi Mohammed Seghir .
Abstract
The research investigates Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970) by uniting feminist theory with psychoanalytic and postcolonial and reader-response approaches and uncanny theory. The research investigates how Western beauty standards create mental fragmentation in black women through their racial and gendered experiences. The research uses bell hooks and Frantz Fanon and Gayatri Spivak and Julia Kristeva and Homi Bhabha and Sara Ahmed and Patricia Hill Collins and Freud to demonstrate how Morrison presents the psychological effects of internalized oppression. The character of Pecola Breedlove demonstrates how black women face racialized femininity through their desire for blue eyes which leads to their disappearance under white observation. Through Claudia's incomplete storytelling Morrison forces readers to experience moral responsibility toward their involvement with emotions and their role as observers. The research applies affect theory and postcolonial hybridity and uncanny analysis to establish The Bluest Eye as a space where beauty and recognition undergo decolonization and transformation.
Keywords
Toni Morrison ; The Bluest Eye ; gender ; affect ; gaze ; internalized oppression
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