The Difference between High and Low culture in the context of The Bluest Eye and Sangati: Events.

Authors

  • Mohammed Jahangir Khan

Abstract

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. (1970), and Bama’s Sangati: Events, (1994) deals with the thematic concern of the differences between the Black and White, Upper and lower culture. The elite and dominated classes consider themselves as far more intelligent, more respectable, more valuable, luxurious, worthy, and more deserving class than the Blacks, Dalits and marginalized people. The elite class in the society shows its ascendancy in every aspect of life, whether it is political power, social structure, or discourse; their supremacy always has stuck in the mind of the less-privileged class. Through discourse this class (elite) has convinced to proletariat and bourgeois that there is a great difference between the poor and rich, between the elite and bourgeois and between the high culture and popular culture. The cultural differences are an ideological set up made by aristocracy for the sake of their own welfare, interest and standardization. The difference is not a biological dissimilarity; rather it is a social constructed thought by some class for mass or popular culture.

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2020-11-01

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