Lois Tyson
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“Similarly, a psychoanalytic reading of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) might analyze the ways in which the novel reveals the debilitating psychological effects of racism, especially when these effects are internalized by its victims, which we see in the belief of many of the black characters that their race has the negative qualities ascribed to it by white America. These psychological effects are evident, for example, in the Breedloves’ conviction that they are ugly simply because they have African features;”
― Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
― Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
“Who has the time to become politically active, or even politically aware, when one is struggling just to stay alive and feed one’s children?”
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“it replaced: the biographical-historical criticism that dominated literary studies in the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth. At that time, it was common practice to interpret a literary text by studying the author’s life and times to determine authorial intention,”
― Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
― Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
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