kew·pie (ky  p )n. A small, fat-cheeked, wide-eyed doll with a curl of hair on top of the head. [Originally a trademark.] |
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| There are vintage Kewpie and Barbie dolls, and a talking John F. In school she transfers her adoration from the ethnically marked and unkempt teacher Miss Rosenberg to the slender Miss Hempstead with "eyes that were kewpie doll blue" (35). Ellison thus combines lynching and ritual sacrifice in relation to the modem social roles women must play (dancing like the kewpie doll, the naked blonde woman in the battle royal, for instance) and the minstrellike performances of black men in the novel (dancing as Sambo dolls). |
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