Professor Lee Quinby – Spring 2013

Posts Tagged: Matriarch


Posts Tagged ‘Matriarch’

Wright and Peace

Despite the vast differences between the upbringings of Sula Peace and Nel Wright, the two bosom buddies in Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel Sula have one aspect in common: both were reared by overbearing maternal figures.  For Nel, this controlling female comes in the form of her mother Helene, whose own parentage is so spotty, as […]