![]() ![]() Representation was an essential component of the ritual, ensuring its diffusion in the images and narratives produced in response to the events. ![]() The spectacle lynchings of the early 20th century performed a ritual that assigned roles and distributed racial identities in American society. It will reveal how these mythic events assist language, plot, pacing, mood and tone in the deconstruction of binaries regarding slave relations, strength versus weakness, and character development. The essay will establish two key incidents-the Bottoms’ origin story and Sula’s moment of self-mutilation-as mythic in nature. This essay will assert that Morrison’s Sula uses folk literature’s mythic imagery to play with readers’ expectations and draw readers’ attention to the weaknesses of binary thinking. Francis Utley’s “Folk Literature: An Operational Definition” for the Journal of American Folklore, this essay will broadly define folk literature as works that invoke mythic or epic imagery-that imagery which amplifies origin/coming of age stories and features characters with unique qualities that push the limits of human capability. Chi-Fen Emily Chen summary of “Folk Literature” for the National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology and Prof. Pulling from cultural vernacular, as well as from Prof. At times, Toni Morrison’s Sula reads like a work of folk or epic literature. ![]()
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