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The Society And The Girl Child In The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrisonand Kaine Agarys Yellow Yellow
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1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The
girl child has been consigned to a position of inferiority and she
faces series of oppression and struggle as a result of societal
anomalies.
The African continent is dependent on the western world
today; most decisions made by African leaders are to some extent
influenced by the western world and there are little or no black
indigenous entrepreneurial class as compared to the whites which is
evident in the Forbes world ranking or world‟s richest men. The African
continent is racked by affliction, disaster, macro-economic crisis,
corruption, high level illiteracy, squalor, hunger and other
destabilizing conditions by the white in cahoots with a greedy,
unpatriotic ruling class.
The wests describe everything black as
evil, which has made blacks to hate themselves and loose their dignity
and self-worth. The African continent, with so much natural resources,
is still marked by poverty and disharmony and are regarded as third
world countries. According to Bill Moyer: You have seen what happen when
the primitive societies are unsettled by white man‟s civilization, they
go to pieces they disintegrate, they become deceased. (The Power of
Myth 1, 2)
In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, we see Pecola
embarking on acquiring blue eyes as a result of the imposed standard and
ideal of beauty and this imposed standard has affected how she is
received by her society.
Also in Yellow Yellow by KaineAgary, we see
how the activities of the western oil company destroyed the dreams of
the girl (Zilayefa) and her entire society and have deprived them of a
better life, exiting them into endless struggle as a result of political
and economic marginalization ravaging the Niger Delta.
1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVE
With this project, we aim to redeem Africans from embarking on a journey to the white man‟s racist ideologies and values.
To
redeem blacks from the internalized self-hate and loss of dignify as a
result of the white ideals is our major preoccupation.
To portray
that the challenges of environmental degradation, poverty, lack of
amenities evident in the black society have a great impact on the female
folk, especially the girls.
1.4 SCOPE OF STUDY
This research
work deals with the society and the girl child. It entails textual
analysis of the two text; The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Yellow
Yellow by kaineAgary.
1.5 RESEARCH METHOD
The primary and main
source of information includes articles and works on slavery,
colonialism and neo-colonialism, the girl child internet materials and
other written research work.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The research work reviews the historical encounter between the whites and Africans and argues that the challenges or problems evident in the black society at present are as a result of the white man‟s racism, exploitation and imperialism. It also looks into the social values and system of meaning that promotes male dominance and demeans the woman ... Continue reading---
