The Color Aesthetic Under Oppression-Oppression-The Analysis of The Bluest Eye From Foucault Discourse Power Theory  

作　　者：YUAN Yiping 

机构地区：[1]University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,Shanghai,China

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2022年第2期71-75,共5页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：In The Bluest Eye,Morrison describes a black society under a deformed aesthetic system.This aesthetic mode is a kind of ideology constructed by the white society through the political system and power.Most of the characters in the book are tamed by this mainstream idea:white skin and blue eyes-oriented aesthetic,which is also the tragedy origin of the protagonist Pecola.Foucault’s theory of discourse power profoundly discusses the formation and effects of discourse power,a new way of controlling the lower class.This paper,based on the two operations of disciplinary power,the effects of discourse power,and the resistance of it,interprets how the white aesthetic becomes the mainstream aesthetic,its oppression on the black individuals and groups and their resistance of such power through the three characters of Peal,a brown girl,Pecola,a black girl and Claudia,the narrator,in the hope that the black race can acquire awakening consciousness,break the discourse power behind the mainstream aesthetic,and realize the self-confidence of skin color and race.

关 键 词：The Bluest Eye FOUCAULT discourse power color aesthetic 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]