Analyzing Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye in Terms of Bakhtin’s Notion of “Heteroglossia”

This study aims at investigating the nature of Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia, in Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, and how heteroglossia is achieved in Pecola Breedlove's interaction with others in terms of beauty and personal aspiration in the novel. Pecola is the protagonist of...

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Published in:Theory and practice in language studies 2022-09, Vol.12 (9), p.1945-1951
Main Authors: Dakamsih, Nusaibah. J, Hammouri, Raid. N. Al
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Aesthetic Education
American literature
Analysis
Aspiration
Atwood, Margaret (1939- )
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895-1975)
Biographies
British & Irish literature
Canadian literature
Criticism and interpretation
Dialects
Encyclopedias
Heteroglossia
Intention
Irish literature
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Language
Linguistics
Literary Criticism
Literary Devices
Literary Genres
Literary techniques
Literature Reviews
Morrison, Toni
Morrison, Toni (1931-2019)
Narration
Natural language
Novelists
Novels
Philosophers
Polyphony
Resistance (Psychology)
Russian literature
Self Actualization
Social Theories
Society
Works
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Summary:This study aims at investigating the nature of Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia, in Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, and how heteroglossia is achieved in Pecola Breedlove's interaction with others in terms of beauty and personal aspiration in the novel. Pecola is the protagonist of the novel, The Bluest Eye. The study’s main argument is whether heteroglossia has a significant role in revealing the hidden and implied intentions and meaning in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye in terms of beauty and personal aspiration. In order to prove the main argument of this paper, the researcher discusses Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia and attempts to apply it to Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. The study illustrates Bakhtin's celebration of the novel as a genre defined by its dimensions to include verified and multiple meanings best expressed in Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye due to the novel's Chapterization, the narrators' voice, and Pecola’s recognition of beauty standards. The paper also shows how Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is being categorized as a dialogic novel according to its heteroclite structure, and the narrator’s voice.
ISSN:1799-2591
2053-0692
DOI:10.17507/tpls.1209.29