Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye Lecture II Ramon Saldivar Stanford University

The Subjectification of the Subject Aesthetics and the social structure Literature and Society Black women writers in the 20th c. American literary tradition “Quiet as it’s kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941.” BE 9/16/2018 Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II

“The codes and touchstones of the world,” BE 47 Foregrounding the trivial Backgrounding the shocking Capturing the grammar of the discourse of American subject creation “But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.” 9/16/2018 Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II

Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II “Dick and Jane” White family primer The mythology of classic American life The deconstruction of the myth The ideology of “beauty” The social construction of beauty 9/16/2018 Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II

Dismembering white baby dolls: Beauty Politicized and Racialized “disinterested violence . . . repulsive because it was disinterested. . .” BE, 23 Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgement Whiteness and privilege Pedagogy of the movies Pedagogy of the oppressor 9/16/2018 Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II

The Blues-ness of Blue and the Law of the Heart Hating Shirley Temple “disinterested violence” BE, 23 “The best hiding place was love” BE, 23 9/16/2018 Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II

Kant, Critique of Aesthetic Judgment The Ideology of the Aesthetic Beauty as an element of the Political Unconscious 9/16/2018 Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II

Gender as the Modality of Race Beauty and the internalization of subjection Misogyny and race “Love is never better than the lover,” BE 206 9/16/2018 Morrison, Bluest Eye, Lecture II