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This paper examines Toni Morrison’s perspective on the issue of racial identity and her alternative view of communal healing. More specifically, I will explore the author’s way of representing a peculiar event—the inexplicable changes of Bride’s body that returns to its adolescent form—from the angles of mysticism and the “Black writing style.” Indeed, Morrison has defined her novels as having a “Black style” based in African-American culture, which has many similarities with mysticism. By combining these two concepts, Morrison transforms the invisible trauma of the slavery era into a visible one, i.e., the story of what has happened to Bride’s body. In the face of this unbelievable event, her childhood memories, with the history of the slavery era as their backdrop, unfurl to the reader. Particularly in the latter part of the story, where Bride and Booker manage their childhood trauma by nursing Queen, the author suggests that the reader recognize collective trauma as bound not only to the black community but also to society at large.
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Toni Morrison, God Help the Child, mysticism, Black style, communal healing
