"Pecola and the Unyielding Earth": Exclusionary Cartographies, Transgenerational Trauma, and Racialized Dispossession in The Bluest Eye

IF 0.1 4区文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN

STUDIES IN AMERICAN FICTION Pub Date : 2022-03-10 DOI:10.1353/saf.2021.0002

C. Battista, Melissa R. Sande

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Abstract

Quiet as it’s kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. We thought, at the time, that it was because Pecola was having her father’s baby that the marigolds did not grow. . . . We had dropped our seeds in our own little plot of black dirt just as Pecola’s father had dropped his seeds in his own plot of black dirt. Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his lust or despair. What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and the unyielding earth. Cholly Breedlove is dead; our innocence too. The seed shriveled and died; her baby too.1

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“佩科拉和不屈服的地球”:《最蓝的眼睛》中的排他性制图、跨代创伤和种族化剥夺

尽管保持着安静，但在1941年的秋天，这里没有金盏花。我们当时认为，这是因为佩科拉怀了她父亲的孩子，所以金盏花没有生长. . . .我们把种子撒在了自己那一小块黑土里，就像佩科拉的父亲把种子撒在了自己那块黑土里一样。我们的纯真和信仰并不比他的欲望和绝望更有成效。现在清楚的是，在所有的希望、恐惧、欲望、爱和悲伤中，只剩下佩科拉和不屈不挠的大地。乔利·布里德洛夫死了;我们的纯真。种子枯萎死亡;她的孩子也是。

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期刊介绍： Studies in American Fiction suspended publication in the fall of 2008. In the future, however, Fordham University and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York will jointly edit and publish SAF after a short hiatus; further information and updates will be available from time to time through the web site of Northeastern’s Department of English. SAF thanks the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern University for over three decades of support. Studies in American Fiction is a journal of articles and reviews on the prose fiction of the United States, in its full historical range from the colonial period to the present.