Arts Studies and Criticism

In The Bluest Eye, Morrison stresses the destructiveness of white ideals and its manipulative impact on value production. The point is also highlighted by Fanon. As stated by Oliver, Fanon indicates Oliver further points out that, through economic subordination and the technological propaganda of images of inferior black figure, colonization along with racism successfully colonizes the black’s body and mind. The technological propaganda of images of inferior black people aims to shape the black’s view of the world and form the black’s sense of themselves. Morrison concurs with Oliver’s opinion on the colonizing effect of the all-pervasiveness of images of the inferior black. Morrison dramatizes the racist condition of black subjects who are overwhelmed by white images in white culture and, as a result, reinserted into the racist discourses of white/beautiful/civilized and black/ugly/primitive in The Bluest Eye.