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Toni Morrison’s Eco-feministic Perspectives
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This study aims to discuss Toni Morrison’s eco-feministic perspectives in Sula. Morrison focuses on woman’s physical connection with the natural principle as a result of her rhythm and cycle, as eco-feminists do. More specifically, she shows that nature interacts with women’s bodily processes through mutual ecological relations. This tendency of Morrison’s eco-feministic perspectives also shows that she takes a subversive attitude against the rational idea and absolute value of the male-dominated society. It is in this context that Morrison criticizes the male-dominated society, for she sees it as a epicenter which emphasizes the conceptual linkage between women and animals, women and the body, or women and nature, and considers these categories as inferiorities. Therefore, Morrison reflects her subversive attitude against the male-dominated society on Sula’s sensual self. Sula is characterized on the basis of the connection between sexual behaviors and natural cycles. Her sexuality of this kind drives her community people to erotophobia and reduces their moral code to a unnecessary device. Sula doesn’t care about the moral code that puts a taboo on a black woman’s sex with a white man and with her old friend’s husband. And her violation of the moral code reflects Morrison’s subversive attitude against the anti-ecofeministic values of the male-dominated society.
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This study aims to discuss Toni Morrison’s eco-feministic perspectives in Sula. Morrison focuses on woman’s physical connection with the natural principle as a result of her rhythm and cycle, as eco-feminists do. More specifically, she shows that nature interacts with women’s bodily processes through mutual ecological relations. This tendency of Morrison’s eco-feministic perspectives also shows that she takes a subversive attitude against the rational idea and absolute value of the male-dominated society. It is in this context that Morrison criticizes the male-dominated society, for she sees it as a epicenter which emphasizes the conceptual linkage between women and animals, women and the body, or women and nature, and considers these categories as inferiorities. Therefore, Morrison reflects her subversive attitude against the male-dominated society on Sula’s sensual self. Sula is characterized on the basis of the connection between sexual behaviors and natural cycles. Her sexuality of this kind drives her community people to erotophobia and reduces their moral code to a unnecessary device. Sula doesn’t care about the moral code that puts a taboo on a black woman’s sex with a white man and with her old friend’s husband. And her violation of the moral code reflects Morrison’s subversive attitude against the anti-ecofeministic values of the male-dominated society.
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