Vol. 9, Issue 2, Part B (2023)

Abstract
Tony Morrison is a celebrated Afro-American novelist, who foregrounds in her imagined narratives the post-slavery discourse. Her deep interest in African American culture is manifest in her selection of the storylines of culturally and historically determined families. She has given a sensational representation of father-daughter incestuous relationship in The Bluest Eye. In institutionalized slavery black women were reduced to the level of animals for sex by white men, which was a traumatic experience for them. Simultaneously, these women were exploited by black men. Their existence was in double jeopardy. The objectification of female body has been one of the central issues in her fiction. Black women have been subject to sexual exploitation, oppression, suppression and repression, so much so that they suffered sexual dysfunctions, neurotic anxiety, hallucinations and insanity. Pecola, the young defenseless daughter in the fictional world of the novel is abused as a sex object by none other than her own father. She grows up into a woman with very low self-esteem, low self-worth; and she occasionally hallucinates. The present paper undertakes to explore the incest with its causes and aftereffects via the textual evidence.