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Essay / Sula by Toni Morrison - Black on white violence...
The black on white violence advocated in Sula"And white women? They pursue you [black men] to the four corners of the earth, feel you under every bed I I knew a white woman wouldn't leave the house after six for fear one of you would take her away.…They think rape is coming soon, and if they don't get it. the rape they are looking for, they cry it out anyway just so that the search is not in vain (Morrison) This is how Sula, the heroine of Toni Morrison's novel, refers to what she feels. like the secret desire of every white woman to be raped by a black man Morrison, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, is one of the most assigned writers in university literature classes today, and her. novel Sula (1973) is certainly one of his most popular works. Millions of students have read this book, and it is safe to say that Morrison's vision of the word, especially of the white world, is. a great impression on impressionable minds. Sula Without Plot is the story of a friendship between two black women: Sula and Nel. The relationship between the women takes place against a backdrop of malevolent and evil white people who insult and commit other outrages against black people in general and black women in particular. For example, Nel's mother is reprimanded by a white conductor for being in the white section of a Southern restaurant. train: "What were you doing in that car over there?...We don't make mistakes on this train. Now get your ass in there." As Nel and her mother move further south, even public toilets marked COLORED WOMEN disappear: women are forced to relieve themselves in "a field of tall grass on the other side of the track", and Nel finally learns to “fold leaves”. " expertly. Later in the novel, Sula and Nel are in the middle of the article ...... 11-13, 1997), white studies guru Noel Ignatiev remarked: "Now that white studies are become a university industry, with its own theses mill, its conferences, its publications, and undoubtedly soon its young professors, it is time for the abolitionists to declare their position in relation to it. Abolitionism is above all a political project: abolitionists study. whiteness in order to abolish it... Whiteness is not only oppressive and false, it is nothing but oppressive and false, as James Baldwin said: "As long as you think you are white, there is no hope for you. » Perhaps people like Morrison and Ignatiev believe that white women's whiteness can be violated, given that offspring from such violent unions will not be white. This would certainly be a way for black people to “survive” the “evil” that is white people, as Morrison describes them...