Sula

by Morrison, Toni

• ISBN13: 9780452263499
• ISBN10: 0452263492
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-09-01
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

In clear, dark, resonant language, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and its people. Unabridged. 5 CDs.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Toni Morrison's Sula: a Satire on Binary Thinking	p. 3
In Search of Self: Frustration and Denial in Toni Morrison's Sula	p. 15
The Contemporary Fables of Toni Morrison	p. 25
A Hateful Passion, a Lost Love	p. 51
Sula and the Primacy of Woman-To-Woman Bonds	p. 77
Like an Eagle in the Air: Toni Morrison	p. 93
Sula: Within and Beyond the African American Folk Tradition	p. 105
Sula and Beloved: Images of Cain in the Novels of Toni Morrison	p. 133
Sula	p. 149
War and Peace: Transfigured Categories and the Politics of Sula	p. 163
Shocked into Separateness: Unresolved Oppositions in Sula	p. 183
The Black Voice and the Language of the Text: Toni Morrison's Sula	p. 203
Black Girlhood and Black Womanhood: the Bluest Eye and Sula	p. 219
Chronology	p. 239
Contributors	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 243
Acknowledgments	p. 245
Index	p. 247
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