And since my sensibility was highly political and passionately aesthetic, it would unapologetically inform the work I did. My only option was fidelity to my own sensibility.
Looking back on her novel 30 years later, Morrison wrote: Writing in the early 1970s ( Sula was published in 1973), Morrison was committed to addressing questions rapidly fermenting in the culture involving gender, racial, socio-economic, sexual liberation, through a language and an imagery intrinsic to African-American culture that was demythologized and in some ways purified.
It is an august work and it rewards patience, readerly fortitude, and close study.
But the novel’s ambition is unmistakable. Nobel Prize winning writer Toni Morrison’s second novel, Sula, is relatively short (at about 180 pages) but challenging, as its style is a kind of uncompromising vernacular, and its characterization is stark, extreme, almost gothic, without a whole lot for teenage readers to warm up to.
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