Volume II Special Issue IV April 2022

Name of Author : K Srividya Lakshmi

Title of the paper : The Portrayal of Psychological and Emotional campaign in Toni Morrisons Tar Baby

Abstract: Tar Baby embraces strong amusing lines with impressively woven characters. Morrison’s style of emotional writing has sparkled the readers mind to certain facts like racism, sensibility, struggles, cultural conflicts, blackness and explores how being a woman imprisons the female characters and so on. Lack of self - identity and life between the black and white cultures depicted through Jadine Childs, the central character has created a kind of confused uncertainty among Morrison’s readers. Black was created as a political kind in a certain historical moment. It was created as a significance of certain symbolic and ethical struggles. Morrison immerses readers in revealing the sensibility of women is active and productive. This paper reveals that the novel Tar Baby is immersed with Morrison’s racial quest enriched with psychological and emotional move. In that very struggle it is a change of consciousness, a change of self-recognition, a new process of identification, the emergence into visibility of a new subject and an exploration of sensibility as revealed in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby.

Keywords : Sensibilities, Culture, Exploration, Self – Identity and Tar Baby

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Page Number : 64-67