The Unfinished Search For Cultural Identity

Toni Morrison's novel Tar Baby is a novel with the theme of search for cultural identity. The paper puts emphasis on the cultural factors that dominate the novel, with a combination of the cultural connotations in the names, the cultural conflicts from different cultural values and the themes on the search for cultural identity, from which it suggests Toni Morrison's attitude towards cultural identity and her answer to the search for the lost cultural identity. The paper is divided into three chapters to reveal the cultural connotations of Tar Baby from three major aspects and to discuss the theme on the search for cultural identity.