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| Article Name : | | | Racial Affliction And Class Oppression In Toni Morrison's Sula | | Author Name : | | | Amirthavalli Asokan, | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-1597 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Toni Morrison seems to have realized this awful truth by the time she comes to write her second novel, Sula (1973). The major predicament that Morrison considers in this novel is, therefore, two-fold-the effect of racism upon black identity formation, and the effect of racism and sexism upon the identity formation of the black female. In an interview conducted by Colette Dowling, Morrison states that “blacks is they are to succeed in America society, must leave their native communities, and in so doing, cut themselves off from their old lives.” (New York Times Magazine, 58) This amounts to double isolation, since the doors to the white America mainstream generally remain closed to blacks. | | Keywords : | | |
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