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Toni Morrison's Sula: Sula's and Sula's Explorative Experimentation

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Hyunwook ShinSula's experimental and explorative features are conspicuous from the introductory story of an imaginary Black community named 'the Bottom,' which is now on the verge of destruction by the 'white' civilization. 'The Bottom upon a hill' is at once a realistic representation of the Black life and a parodic criticism of the white American's founding narrative, 'City upon a hill.' As is allegorical and also historically valid the description that 'the Bottom' stands on a hill, Sula is at once historical and fabulous, realistic and allegorical, and tragic and comic. This coexistence of contradictions dismantles the readers' binary thinking and make them prepared for Sula's life, which is too unconventional to accept and also too alluring to refuse. This essay first examines how Morrison opens a new territory for the Black and female experience by skillfully appropriating the American classical literary tradition (particularly exemplified in N. Hawthorne and his 'romance' theory). Then it focuses on how Sula's life reveals its experimental features in the relationships with Nel and with Ajax and what implications Sula's isolated life embodies for the Bottom's destiny.

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