The novel The Bluest Eye deals with the colour problem in America. Discuss.
Negro speaker says –
I am the darker brother.
And then goes on –
They’ll sce how beautiful I am
And be ashamed.
I. too, am America. (Norton: 1258)
The echo of Walt Whitman is clear in the first and the last lines. Langston Hughes was critical of those black writers who had the urge towards whiteness, ‘the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible” (Norton: 1267). Such an artist