Defiance of Gender Norms and Traditional Morality: A Study of Toni Morrison’s Sula

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Main Author: Suraya Jan
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Language:en
Published: Perception Publishing 2017
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contents Defiance of Gender Norms and Traditional Morality: A Study of Toni Morrison’s Sula Suraya Jan Lengua y Literatura Women Black Gender Morality Community Gone are the days when African-American literature was considered marginalized and inferior. It has the tendency of creating marvellous writers like Toni Morrison. Morrison is a novelist par excellence. She works hard to aware black people of their freedom and rights. Sula is one of the best novels of Morrison. Accentuating the quest of the black female self within the white racist and black sexist American society, the novel questions the biased portraiture of African-American women in the discourse of whites and black males. Sula Peace breaks the traditional norms of her society and emerges as a new woman defying all gender norms. Coming out of her subservient status, Sula demands her dignity in the community she lives in and creates a new identity for herself. The paper aims at pointing out how Morrison creates a character in her novel that defies all gender roles and traditional morality and emerges as a trendsetter setting a new direction for the women of her community. 2017 artículo científico 2455-6580 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=703876864014 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=7038 The Creative Launcher application/pdf Perception Publishing The Creative Launcher (India) Num.4 Vol.2
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publisher Perception Publishing
spellingShingle Defiance of Gender Norms and Traditional Morality: A Study of Toni Morrison’s Sula
Suraya Jan
Lengua y Literatura
Women
Black
Gender
Morality
Community
Defiance of Gender Norms and Traditional Morality: A Study of Toni Morrison’s Sula Suraya Jan Lengua y Literatura Women Black Gender Morality Community Gone are the days when African-American literature was considered marginalized and inferior. It has the tendency of creating marvellous writers like Toni Morrison. Morrison is a novelist par excellence. She works hard to aware black people of their freedom and rights. Sula is one of the best novels of Morrison. Accentuating the quest of the black female self within the white racist and black sexist American society, the novel questions the biased portraiture of African-American women in the discourse of whites and black males. Sula Peace breaks the traditional norms of her society and emerges as a new woman defying all gender norms. Coming out of her subservient status, Sula demands her dignity in the community she lives in and creates a new identity for herself. The paper aims at pointing out how Morrison creates a character in her novel that defies all gender roles and traditional morality and emerges as a trendsetter setting a new direction for the women of her community. 2017 artículo científico 2455-6580 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=703876864014 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=7038 The Creative Launcher application/pdf Perception Publishing The Creative Launcher (India) Num.4 Vol.2
title Defiance of Gender Norms and Traditional Morality: A Study of Toni Morrison’s Sula
topic Lengua y Literatura
Women
Black
Gender
Morality
Community
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=703876864014