Authentic Black Woman: Tar Baby Dr Manisha Patil The real issue in Son-Jadine relationship is the black man’s attempt to possess body and soul of black woman so that he can assert his male identity in a white world which effeminates him. Though, unlike Cholly he is not the first-hand victim of ‘rape’ by whites, he is well aware of the cultural pressure exercised on blacks overtly and covertly and the fact that whatever he might do, a black man cannot be in the position of power in the outside white world. So, he wants to assert his male power within house in relation to black women. When his wife cheats him, he kills her and her teenage lover (both blacks) by driving the jeep into the house and setting the whole house on fire. After that for eight years he moves from place to place as an aimless wanderer. When finally, he comes to Isle des Chevaliers and watches Jadine sleep in the darkness of the night, he has the urge to possess her and settle down as a house hold man. How...
हिन्दी साहित्य, भाषा-विज्ञान, समाज-विज्ञान, भारतीय संस्कृति और सिनेमा पर प्रामाणिक शोधपरक आलेख। संपादक: डॉ. मनीष कुमार मिश्रा।