BR'ER FOX AND BR'ER RABIT IN TONI MORRISON’S TAR BABY

د. اسيل الركابي | Aseel Alrikabi

01/04/2019 القراءات: 391  

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The novel portrays a white man called Valerian Street, the Candy King, who after being retired at age 65, buys a tropical island, called L'Arbe de la Croix. The domestic group at L'Arbe de la Croix is a divided microcosm of American society. Tar Baby (1981) is set on an imaginary Caribbean Island and involves the love affair between Jadine, an educated black model, and Son, a handsome drifter. They meet at the estate of Valerian Street, who is accompanied by a fragile wife, Margaret, and their black servants, Sydney and Ondine Childs.
Some scholars have suggested that in the American incarnation, Br'er Rabbit represented the enslaved Africans who used their wits to overcome adversity and to exact revenge on their adversaries, the White slave-owners. ]Though not always successful, the efforts of Br'er Rabbit made him a folk hero. However, the trickster is a multidimensional character. While he can be a hero, his amoral nature and his lack of any positive restraint can make him into a villain as well or both Africans and African Americans, the animal trickster represents an extreme form of behavior which people may be forced to use in extreme circumstances in order to survive. In other words, sometimes people must use extreme measures in extreme circumstances.

TAR BABY TONI MORRISON

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