Examples Of Eco-Criticism In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

cultural studies. Eco-criticism has gained increasing recognition as an important new field of research and teaching that opens up a broad spectrum of new perspectives and that can help to reaffirm the relevance and responsibility of the humanities and of literary studies. Eco-criticism, which has developed especially in Europe, is the approach of Cultural Ecology. Eco-criticism is fundamentally concerned with the relationship between culture and nature. Cultural Ecology considers the sphere of human culture not as separate from but as interdependent with and transfused by ecological processes and natural energy cycles. At the same time, it recognizes the relative independence and self-reflexive dynamics of cultural processes. Even as the dependency of culture on …show more content…
She wrote a short story about a black girl who longed to have blue eyes. In contemporary woman novelists of America, Toni Morrison is the rare one who thinks highly of nature in her works. Natural imagery in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye compares women destiny with nature, and uncovers the double pressures from white culture and men suffered by Negro women, criticizing ruling logic which gives oppression to Negro women and nature. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison offers a profound critique of codified and institutionalized white language and ideology through the subversion of a school primer that privileges whiteness. The black family and community play a very important and dominating role in the black individual's life. Because of the lack of parents' love and irresponsibility of the community, Pecola loses her sanity, while with the love of their parents and the support from their family, Claudia and her sister Frieda grow up healthily. In The Bluest Eye, the black culture is portrayed mainly through the black blues and Aunt Jimmy’s funeral. In The Bluest Eye Morrison is specifically connected with a particularly