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This paper examines Toni Morrison's novel Sula, and the author's use of color and sensual description to help move the plot along. The paper notes that Sula can be considered "black" literature as it echos much of the story-telling aspects prevelant in oral storytelling. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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many novels and indicates how well they do (or dont) get along in a world in which whites primarily rule. Throughout her novel Sula, Morrison is able to do this
through a variety of imagery that focuses on color and texture, both of which are carried throughout the novel. Sula is a black woman who lives in a time during
which prejudice runs rampant. Through her language, the book could be considered "black fiction," in which she attempts to define the so-called "blackness of black."
First of all, in defining what is called "Sulas double-dose of chosen and biological blackness" (Basu 92) Morrison relies on much colorful language including "two words of
darkness in nightshade" and "quintessentially black" (Basu 92). This presents Sula as more than simply black (and black beyond that of light-skinned black or mulatto). As Morrison presents her protagonist,
she is outlined as one of the more "pure" blacks, with no white blood in her. But then Morrison goes one
step further. As she focuses on the blackness of black language, she relies on a musical analogy (Basu 93). For instance, in describing Sula, Morrison discusses the ". . .
complex, contradictory, evasive, independent and liquid modernity . . . (that) . . . ushers in the Jazz Age" (Basu 93). The Jazz Age, one might recall, was one that
many believed was filled with cacophony of sound and excess of food, money and sex. As such, then, through her musical analogy, Morrison is able to compare Sula with an
endearing and fascinating period of time; a time that, from a distance, glitters and beckons, but up close, can demolish and destroy.
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