Back The Power Of The "gaze"

'Gaze' in culture level is one of most important concepts in post-colonial literature theory. Understanding of such issues as cultural right, cultural experience and cultural identity can be deepened by an analysis of the cultural experience of 'gaze' and 'being gazed', because 'gaze' is not only a cultural attitude, but also a cultural right. Needless to say, 'gaze' means looking, or a kind of special looking. Looking or being looked at, who is looking or who is looked at, reflects the political, economic and cultural conditions of the subject. This thesis focuses on the concept of 'gaze' in the cultural level and aims at a new understanding of the works of Toni Morrison.Black literature is part of American ethnicity literature and it has so far achieved great success. Many contemporary writers manifest in their works the special experience of African Americans. Doubtlessly that Toni Morrison is a dazzling "black diamond". The works of Toni Morrison's convey abundant denotations and cover nearly very field of African American life, such as the oral literature of African traditional culture, mystery stories and black music, and her learning and inheriting of European literary tradition, as well as a variety of writing techniques. The different perspectives in which the study is carried out have drawn a great upsurge from studies of Toni Morrison.This thesis approaches, from a post-colonial perspective, the reconstruction of ego in the novels of Toni Monison's. Through an observation of the cultural psyche of the White 'gazing' at the Black and an analysis of cultural psyche of the Black 'gazing at themselves' with the influence of the White, a discovery is made that the value of African Americans deviates under the suppressing from the mainstream culture with the result that the African American disgusted with their own blackness and judge themselves and others by the standards of the white culture. This thesis argues that African American is an ethnic group, silent because it is deprived of its right of speech, and has no way to deliver the oppression, spiritual and physical. The thesis finds that it is vital for African Americans to reconstruct their ego that illustrates the real name...