This book examines how Toni Morrison in The Bluest Eye (1970) James Baldwin in Just Above My
Head (1979) Alice Walker in The Color Purple (1982) and Sapphire in Push (1996) have used
character creation as a moment of dramatization where and when incest appears in the background
and plays either direct or indirect roles in the lives of characters especially those who are
the perpetrators and or the victims of incest. Through the lenses of New Historicism the
psychoanalytical approach to literature and black feminism this book also explores some
narrative techniques invented by the four authors in relation to incest.
