1John Irving, "Morrison's Black Fable," in The New York Times Book Review, March 29, 1981, p. 31.
2John Irving, "Morrison's Black Fable," in The New York Times Book Review, March 29, 1981.
3Lauren Lepow,"Paradise Lost and Found: Dualism and Edenic Myth in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, " in David L Middleton, ed,Toni Morrison's Fiction: Contemporary Criticism, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1997
5Toni Morrison, Tar Baby, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1981, p. 57, p. 7, p. 8, pp. 8 -9, p.45,p. 191, p. 218, p. 233, p. 223, p. 139 -40, p. 209,p. 203, p. 149, p. 97, p. 97, p102, p. 197, p. 181,p. 232, p. 231, p. 54, p. 101, p. 104, p. 40, p. 250,p. 250.
6Lauren Lepow, "Paradise Lost and Found: Dualism and Edenic Myth in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, " David L. Middleton, ed, Toni Morrlson's Fiction: Contemporary Criticism, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1997, p. 171, p. 165.
7Doreatha Drummond Mbalia, Toni Morrlson's Developing Class Consciousness, London: Associated University Presses, 1991, p. 70, p. 75.
8Pearl K. Bell, "Self-Seekers," in Commentary 72. 2(1981), p. 57.
9W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1996, p. 5.
10Carol P. Christ, Drying Deep and Surfacing, Women Writers on Spiritual Quest, Boston: Beacon, 1980, pp. 13-14.
