모리슨의 『가장 푸른 눈』과 파농의 『검은 피부, 하얀 가면』

Abstract

Morrison's first novel The Bluest Eye is a book about racism and about the racial self-loathing, which is the devastating consequence of the racist culture. Pecola Breedlove, an American-African girl from an impoverished and dysfunctional family, becomes a poor victim of the society. Pecola wants to have blue eyes, the symbol of being white, in the belief that they are beautiful. In the last part of this story, she acquires them, but it is her allusion. Her consciousness is split into two voices, which means she is in the stage of insanity. According to Frantz Fanon, this kind of concept that Pecola has is shaped by the popular culture which is reinforced by the Eurocentrism, racism and dichotomy. That is, these discriminational ideologies nurture the society, in which the oppressed are made to feel a sense of inferiority. Inferiority, or coloniality is passed down to the next generation through the books, the media and the education, etc. In the course of transmission, it can be unconditionally absorbed and intensified. Those who have this feeling deny or reject their identities and values, and finally they end up being in the condition called 'alienation' by Fanon. The people faced with self-alienation lose their self-esteem and despise themselves. Fanon, in his book Black Skin, White Masks, urges the black and the readers to be out of this situation, coloniality. There are several decolonization strategies such as the violence of liberation by Fanon and the colonial difference by Mignolo. One of the strategies people can attempt to do in their daily lives might be Claudia's question.