Moreover, she interprets black individuality and resists to social conventions in a profound manner. Contrary to her compatriots robbed of cultural identity, she represents black people transcending physical appearance manifested as black skin. The character of the novel is a rebellious figure named Sula who is the victim of culture hegemony for she is not only neglected by her own parents but also be despised by the external circumstance. Her famous novel, Sula, is written in a black vernacular manner filled with colorful turns of phrase and figures of speech, which are peculiar to the black community with the purpose that her work is in compatible with life. Consequently, she is dedicated to depicting characters who supersedes questions of gender and race, comprehending the exclusion of African and African American cultural experiences from the hegemonically constructed history of the United States. Realizing black had long been silenced, overlooked and distorted in novels, she sympathetically created literary works composed of richly detailed black personalities and female dispositions to illustrate her writing goal that a writer should rediscover female experience and regain identity recognition. As a goodness in American literary history, she privileges her cultural identity and expresses her opinions publicly: “I am valuable as a writer because I am a woman.”. The last is addressed as the loss of national responsibility as well as identity recognition among whole black communities.Īs a woman writer with multi-layered vision, Toni Morrison exhibits herself distinctly in American literary canon and becomes an archetype of renown female writers at the height of creativity in contemporary American literature, with her works outlining and responding to a particular cultural group. The second alienation is manifested as the distortion of sexual relationships through the transgression and encroachment of marriage ethics. The first is concerned with the alienation of black males who are originally ordinary citizens at the bottom of a hierarchy having transformed into executioners of the tragedy with the erosion of false values related to some comprehensive factors concerning family and social environment. Combined with the method of close reading, the paper explores three forms of behavioral alienation in the novel. In her novel Sula, she abandons traditional narrative method, inaugurating a new viewpoint to describe living conditions that are often overlooked among black community, aiming at revealing the alienation of black souls caused by racial discrimination for a long period.

As a woman writer with multi-layered vision, Toni Morrison exhibits herself distinctly in American literary canon, becoming the most prominent black female writer.

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