Postmodern identity and philosophy in Toni Morrison's Sula.

• Main Author: Teo, Rachel Zhen Li.
• Other Authors: Andrew Corey Yerkes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35272
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Toni Morrison’s Sula demonstrates its female protagonist as a postmodern individual living by a postmodern philosophy, in a modernist novel that essentially blurs binaries. Morrison’s break down of distinctions between opposites serves to expose the very model of binary thinking fundamental to moral...