Professor Lee Quinby – Spring 2012

Posts Tagged: Sula


Posts Tagged ‘Sula’

Gender and Sexuality

In the very beginning of this course, I mentioned that a partial reason for taking this course was because I was taking a Gender and Society course and was interested in how it would couple and/ or digress with this course. There were instances of “ah-ha’s” and some nods of familiarity throughout this course in […]

Construction, Power and Loss in Sula

I really enjoyed Tony Morrison’s Sula. It’s a unique novel in that Morrison lets the reader to a lot of work and filling in the blanks for herself. I found that both challenging and interesting especially when I was trying to recall how certain characters related to one another. Sula reminded me of Lolita in […]

The Strong Women of Sula

Sula is a gorgeous book to read, and it I am glad I had the documents and Foucault to offer additional insight. Toni Morrision does a good job portraying Sula in all her shades of gray. I found that I was slow to judge her (and the rest of the characters) because of our other […]