Open AccessRace Identity in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby
Author(s) -
Messaoudi Walid
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal online of humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2395-5155
DOI - 10.24113/ijohmn.v5i3.100
Subject(s) - identity (music) , colonialism , race (biology) , opposition (politics) , racism , sociology , binary opposition , gender studies , political science , aesthetics , epistemology , art , law , philosophy , politics
This paper aims at analyzing Toni Morrison's work Tar Baby. We are going to apply the post-colonial theory to deal with the issues of racial identity. Also, we are going to focus on the binary opposition as one of the main concern of post-colonialism to analyze the relationship between blacks and whites. This analysis is based on the actions, thoughts, and behaviors of the major characters to deal with the problem of racism and identity.