Patriarchal Domination in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Surfacing’ and Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’

Abstract

This paper examines the Patriarchal domination in Margaret Atwoods Surfacing and Toni Morisons The Bluest Eye. Postcolonial debates along with the issues of feminism that have always been a challenging discourses in the present day world with the constant cultural encounters. This paper also presents the analogous nature of patriarchy, cultural imperialism and geographical colonization and how it has combined colonial experience that has left the victim with feelings of Patriarchy, displacement, and disconnectedness.  It is a continuous struggling between society and women not only psychologically but also culturally. During the period of alienation both the protagonist realise their past and again they come to search for an individual identity. The sufferings of Afro American women who have been exploited in a male dominated society. (Where white people are the final authority, and orbiter of the social status of women.) An afro American women seems to have been sufferings since birth, the colour of her complexion is the cause of her misery literary beggary,and Depression and sexual harassment are tied to her very existence. This is not only the stat of Pecola and the unnamed narrator of Surfacingbut many womens from all over the world, east or west it is pertinent to eradicate from our society.This point is realistically brought out by the two great novelists Toni Morison and Margaret Atwood.