%0 Journal Article
%T The Melancholic Subject and The Bluest Eye
%A Camellia Talebian Sadehi
%A Helen Oulia Nia
%J Studies in Literature and Language
%D 2011
%I Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture
%R 10.3968/j.sll.1923156320110303.087
%X Julia Kristeva, the Bulgarian-French critic, claims that the melancholic subject has a sense of loss and s/he cannot share it with other people as s/he considers it private. S/ he is stranger to her/his mother tongue and cannot express her/his feeling through language; however, s/he should use language in order to get rid of her/his sense of loss. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison devotes herself to the slaves' experience. She believes that the slaves suffer from their past and feel a sense of loss, and they should use language to express their feeling. This article intends to apply Julia Kristeva¡¯s theory of the melancholic subject to Toni Morrison¡¯s The Bluest Eye and shed light on the fact that through language the characters become able to deal with their past. Key words: Julia Kristeva; The melancholic subject; Toni Morrison; The Bluest Eye; Language; Loss
%K Julia Kristeva
%K The melancholic subject
%K Toni Morrison
%K The Bluest Eye
%K Language
%K Loss
%U http://cscanada.net/index.php/sll/article/view/2124