Difference and Intersectionality in Morrison and Kushner
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Since finishing Sula last week, the story, its characters, and the person I perceive in the author have stuck in my thoughts. In fact, I’ve found some fascinating commonalities between Toni Morrison’s novel and the play by Tony Kushner, beyond the fact that the two writers share a first name. While reading the former, I […]
Difference and Intersectionality in Morrison and Kushner
Tags: aesthetic, Angels in America, difference, intersectionality, political fiction, relativism, Sula, Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner
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Flexing the Nexus
Monday, April 15th, 2013
Rereading Toni Morrison’s foreword to Sula at the end of the novel was indispensable in cementing my comprehension of the story. While I understand that the desire to have an audience consider a text alongside a set of principles requires a strategic placement of them, Morrison’s preface doesn’t do justice to the words that follow; […]
Flexing the Nexus
Tags: Nathaniel Hawthorne, relativism, Religion, Sula, The Scarlet Letter, Time, Toni Morrison, Truth
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