Politics of Polyphony in Morrison’s God Help the Child

Abstract

This thesis examines the polyphonic and dialogic nature of God Help the Child. The central objective of thesis is to observe the stories of six main speakers including Morrison herself. The protagonists share their different versions of realities belonging to the similar events from their own position. They mock of how they are being suffocated due to colorism, individualism, and commodification of human values. This thesis has been studied in the light of Bakhtinian notion of polyphony, dialogism,and carnival. I also discuss the concepts of Sue Vice on the comprehensive discussion of carnival. The main finding of this paper is to help the reader understand that in order to address the sentiments of the multicultural society; any oeuvre should not represent the voice of one group rather it has to represent plurality of consciousness by injecting multiple voices. So,people living there will identify themselves in it. It helps to build better humanitarian world. It becomes useful to the artist, sociologist, leaders, planers and developers if they are going to make some constructive programs in the multicultural society.It inculcates the significance of polyphony and why including the sentiment of multiple voices is essential.