Toni Morrison (1931–2019)2 Introduction There is a problem of gaze at the heart of academic global health. Because without naming this problem, we cannot have holistic discussions on imbalances in ...the authorship of academic global health publications. The audience for whom the paper was written would likely be other anthropologists who perform similar service in other countries working as foreigners—a role that may not exist if all such response teams were led by local experts—that is, if every country had the capacity (especially, the funds) to respond to their own outbreaks. ...note that the local versus foreign pose can shift depending on the person and the topic; an anthropologist from the same West African country, but of a different ethnicity to the location of the outbreak, may be a foreigner in relation to burial practices—foreignness could be defined by ethnicity, race, caste, geography, socioeconomic status and the issue in question. ...a paper would be published where our ‘ideal’ paper is published: in local journals, many of which may not be indexed in global databases or published in English,19 but contain publications addressing research questions and policy issues that would exist, irrespective of the presence and influence of foreign experts, foreign funds, foreign donors, foreign helpers or foreign
Using racially contextualized models of trauma studies and psychoanalysis, this article explores the trauma of racially inflected language in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970). The American ...Symbolic ties racial Blackness to abjection in contradistinction to the master signifier of whiteness and systematically perpetuates the Black subject's encounter with the traumatic lack of subjectivity. This signifying chain of trauma implicates not just the Breedlove family but also the entire Black community, including even a seemingly adaptive subject like Claudia MacTeer, whom critics have designated as the "arch-survivor" over and against Pecola Breedlove the "victim." Morrison engages in a narrative therapy of sorts that loosens the reader's fixation with the racial Symbolic and presents an alternative idiom that can empower the disenfranchised. The novel's rendition of the structural, mundane aspects of language-based trauma thus invites us to revisit the traditional conceptions of trauma as a cataclysmic event.
In recent years, ecocriticism has emerged as a serious branch of study which looks into ecological connections of a literary text aiming at creating an ecological awareness amongst the reading ...community. The Bluest Eye, penned by Toni Morrison is a significant text which clearly has ecological inclinations as Toni Morrison has created a gamut of characters who are either ecologically sensitive or are highly ecologically insensitive. This contrast within a deliberate scheming around different seasons makes for an interesting ecocritical study. The present paper thus is an earnest attempt to unravel the various layers incorporated by Morrison in The Bluest Eye to create ecologically sensitive reading public.
This paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novels The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1974) from the standpoint of developmental psychology. Morrison's works can be viewed as an amalgam of social and emotional ...themes which play a major role in the identity construction of the author's characters. The Ecological Systems Theory proposed by Urie Bronfenbrenner will thus be engaged to observe how the identities of Morrison's characters are being shaped in the novels. The analyses of the five systems on which Bronfenbrenner's model is grounded will explain what is needed for Morrison's characters to create a sustainable identity.
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