文化认同的悲剧 [4]
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关键词:Pecolaidentificationtragedymainstream cultureclash佩科拉认同悲剧主流文化冲突
at gave the first insult its teeth. They seem to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds….” (Morrison 55)
When the high-yellow Maureen Peal declares to Pecola and the MacTeer sisters “I am cute! And you ugly! Black and ugly black e mos” (Morrison 58), she is dangerously affirming interracial acceptance of the world’s denigration of blackness. “Respectable,” “milk-brown” women like Geraldine are disgusted at Pecola’s torn dress and uncombed hair, and are confronted with the blackness they have spent lifetime rejecting. For Morrison, these women are antithetical to the black culture she respects. They attend to the “careful development of thrift, patience, high morals and good manners” (Morrison 52) as these are defined by the white society. And they fear “the dreadful funkiness of passion, the funkiness of nature, the funkiness of the wide range of human emotions” (Morrison 52) because these qualities are defined by the black society. They are shamed by the “laugh that is too loud, the enunciation a little too round; the gesture a little too generous. They hold their behind in for fear of a sway too free; when they wear lipstick, they never cover the entire mouth for fear of lips too thick, and they worry, worry, worry about the edges of their hair.” (Morrison 52) As one of the women, Geraldine executes the tyranny of standardized beauty that enthralls some in the black community and terrorizes too many others. In Geraldine’s eyes, Pecola is just a “nasty little black *****.” Geraldine sets her teeth against any recognition of some part of who she is in Pecola.
Church, the god-like preacher in the community, is another one responsible for the victimization and marginalization of Pecola. He has been reared in a family proud of its academic accomplishments and its mixed blood—and in fact, they believe the former is based on the latter. He learns from his ancestors to separate himself in body, mind, and spirit from all that suggested Africa, and in school he is industrious, orderly, and energetic with the confidence born of a conviction of superiority. Unfortunately from the school comes a man with distorted and twisted soul and way of life. He cuts himself from the black community and tries to merge into the mainstream society, but remains an outsider all the time. When Pecola comes to him and seeks for help, he denies his incapability and asks Pecola to poison a dog he hates, and declares that the struggling of the dog suggests that she gets the blue eyes. After she is raped by her father, she gets birth to a dead infant. And at that time, there is nobody who cares about her. On the contrary, all of them laugh at her. So, she believes if she has a pear of blue eye, she will have love, respect, friendship and everything. Then she falls into the crazy condition, and feels she gets a pair of unequalled blue eye, and talks in whispers with it everyday. Thus, his self-dislocation partly contributes to Pecola’s tragedy.
B. The Rejection of Her Parents
Even her parents, Cholly and Pauline Breedlove, relate to Pecola in this way. She is ironically named since they breed not love but violence and misery. Cholly and Pauline eventually destroy their daughter, whose victimization is a bold symbol of their own despair and frustrations. In the pathos of
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