1.Brief Introduction of Author
Toni Morrison
African-American female writer
Her novels particularly focused
on racial & gender issues of black
women
Wrote The Bluest Eye based on her
‘real life experience’
Main Characters
Pecola Breedlove
A poor, black girl eager to have white skin and blue eyes.
She becomes insane at the end of the novel
Claudia Ma
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jan 15, 1929 Atlanta, U.S.
A prominent leader of in the African-American Civil Right Movement
Led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott
Speech @ the 1963 March on Washington “I Have a Dream”
Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
Assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis
Racial Discrimination
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
1951: Oliver Br
White Negroes
· 흑인성을 차용하는 백인 : “White Negroes”
· Norman Mailer
흑인문화의 차용(특히 재즈의 즉흥성)을 Hipsters 인 것과 동일시
Beat generation 의 작품들에서도 나타나는 관점
· 상반된 반응
James Baldwin : 성적 불안감과 로맨티시즘을 비판
Eldridge Cleaver : 원초주의적 남성성에 대한 메일러
but these pronouns have always
coexisted in my mind.”
“Jamaica is a place in which we/they/I connect and disconnect-change place.”
* 식민지의 잔재: the triangle trade, our mother's rapes…(p.19)
* Western civilization
Dr. Schweitzer-The formula: I'm your brother, it is true, but your elder brother / White→ darkness(Black) - "keep singing", Bob Marley
Plaintiffs:
People of the state of California
Defendant:
Orenthal James Simpson
Judge: Lance Ito
Place: Los Angeles, California
Dates of Trial: January 24, 1995-
October 3, 1995
Glove evidence
left glove : Bundy , Right Simpson’s (Aris, XL)
Nicole Brown bought pair of Aris Light XL gloves in 1990
Simpson wore Aris Light gloves from 1990 to June, 1994.
Shoe evide