And since my sensibility was highly political and passionately aesthetic, it would unapologetically inform the work I did. My only option was fidelity to my own sensibility. Looking back on her novel 30 years later, Morrison wrote: ![]() Writing in the early 1970s ( Sula was published in 1973), Morrison was committed to addressing questions rapidly fermenting in the culture involving gender, racial, socio-economic, sexual liberation, through a language and an imagery intrinsic to African-American culture that was demythologized and in some ways purified. It is an august work and it rewards patience, readerly fortitude, and close study. ![]() But the novel’s ambition is unmistakable. ![]() Nobel Prize winning writer Toni Morrison’s second novel, Sula, is relatively short (at about 180 pages) but challenging, as its style is a kind of uncompromising vernacular, and its characterization is stark, extreme, almost gothic, without a whole lot for teenage readers to warm up to.
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