Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Ramon Saldivar Stanford
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye Ramon Saldivar Stanford University Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II
The Subjectification of the Subject n Aesthetics and the social structure u n n 1/3/2022 Literature and Society Black women writers in the 20 th c. American literary tradition “Quiet as it’s kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. ” BE Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II 2
“The codes and touchstones of the world, ” BE 47 n n 1/3/2022 Foregrounding the trivial Backgrounding the shocking Capturing the grammar of the discourse of American subject creation “But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. ” Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II 3
“Dick and Jane” n n White family primer The mythology of classic American life The deconstruction of the myth The ideology of “beauty” u 1/3/2022 The social construction of beauty Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II 4
Dismembering white baby dolls: Beauty Politicized and Racialized n n n 1/3/2022 “disinterested violence. . . repulsive because it was disinterested. . . ” BE, 23 Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgement Whiteness and privilege Pedagogy of the movies Pedagogy of the oppressor Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II 5
The Blues-ness of Blue and the Law of the Heart n n n 1/3/2022 Hating Shirley Temple “disinterested violence” BE, 23 “The best hiding place was love” BE, 23 Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II 6
Kant, Critique of Aesthetic Judgment n n 1/3/2022 The Ideology of the Aesthetic Beauty as an element of the Political Unconscious Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II 7
Gender as the Modality of Race n n n 1/3/2022 Beauty and the internalization of subjection Misogyny and race “Love is never better than the lover, ” BE 206 Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II 8
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