Harsh Reality of Childhood in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child

Morrison’s God Help the Child is published in 2015, is narration by a girl protagonist. She is led to query her self-constructed adult identity and to address her past. In the course of the story, Bride’s body is textually for grounded as the privileged site for the building of her identity, where the signs of an identity crisis will appear as symptoms of a childhood trauma. This article aims at analyzing how the novel’s revelatory structure links the actually unrelated transformations undergone by Bride’s body into a single narrative of secrecy and trauma. The novel draws on black feminism, gender studies, trauma studies, and an attempt to bridge the gap between two apparently different aspects: the thematic importance of the main character’s body and the peculiarities of the narrative arrangement used to tell the story