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"DIDN'T the fox never catch the rabbit, Uncle Remus?" asked the little boy the next evening. "He come mighty nigh it, honey, sho's you born—Brer Fox did. One day atter Brer Rabbit fool 'im wid dat calamus root, Brer Fox went ter wuk en got 'im some tar, en mix it wid some turkentime, en fix up a contrapshun w'at he call a Tar-Baby, en he tuck dish yer Tar-Baby en he sot 'er meaning for tar baby: I found that there is a tar baby in American mythology I started thinking about her. At one time a tar pit was a holy place, at last important because tar was used to build things. . . . It held things together. For, the tar baby goes comes to mean the black woman who can hold things together. (Leclair 122). PDF Cite Share Last Updated on May 5, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. Tar Baby is a breakthrough novel for its author, summarizing her concern with accepting ancestral heritage by African Americans The central motif of Tar Baby is the beauty of black and white in which Jadine searches for love. Margaret Street and Jadine represent beauty, where Jadine feel proud that she is a part of white world. She knows in and out of the white culture and she was educated according to the white world. The Gender of Diaspora in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby - Yogita Goyal [.pdf] The Presence, Roles, and Functions of the Grotesque in Toni Morrison's Novels - Alyce R. Baker [.pdf] The Inauthentic Tar Baby - Anniina Jokinen The Class Distinction Among African Americans in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby and Song of Solomon - Radka Tar Baby—a novel that counters commodity fetishism by returning the global economy to the social and ecological origins of its com- modities and, above all, its foodstuffs. Tar Baby announces its preoccupation with food early on in the unlabeled prologue that chronicles Son's arrival on Isle des Chevaliers. dez ez sassy ez a jay-bird. Brer Fox, he lay low. Brer Rabbit come prancin' 'long twel he spy de Tar-Baby, en den he fotch up on his behime legs like he wuz 'stonished. De Tar Baby, she sot dar, she did, en Brer Fox, he lay low. "Mawnin'!" sez Brer Rabbit, sezee - "nice wedder dis mawnin'," sezee. Tar-Baby ain't sayin' nuthin', en Brer Fox he an African-American will read Tar Baby in different ways exactly because of the different associations and cultural information s/he carries with her/him. At the same time, the concept of the interface, by stressing that "divisions in culture 2Eleanor W. Taylor, " The Fabulous World of Toni Morrison: Tar Baby" in Critical Essays Download chapter PDF Morrison's fascination with building novels around a folktale continued as she wrote her fourth book, Tar Baby, published in 1981. Many of her comments about the folktale appeared separate from the novel, however. Tar Baby is concerned with the relationship which develops between Jadine, a light-skinned African-American woman raised in the Caribbean by her aunt, Ondine, and her husband, who are servants of a retired white factory owner, and Son, a dark-skinned fugitive on the run for murdering his wife. Brought up and educated at the University of the Sorbonne on the money of her aunt's employer Tar Baby traces the quest for self-identity of Jadine Childs, the protagonist. Jadine does not seem to have rebelled against the constructs of the white society in which she is enmeshed; in fact Tar Baby traces the quest for self-identity of Jadine Childs, the protagonist. Jadine does not seem to have rebelled against the constructs of the white society in which she is enmeshed; in fact Ta