![]() It could be said that the novel as a whole will do this as well, and in several different ways. The first sentence of Sula shows us a place, only then to show us that it is gone.Let me point to a few features in that first chapter that seem to me especially “telling.” Looking closely at its first chapter will show you just how articulate is the vision of the novel, just how coherent and succinct. Certain fine works of literature will, in their opening sections-their first chapters, sentences, stanzas, what have you-demonstrate, in condensed form, the nature of the world about to unfold. One thing you might do after you’ve finished the novel is to go back and look at the first chapter. Going back to the first chapter to see how deliberate were Morrison’s choices, how articulate her vision.Toni Morrison’s Nobel Lecture in Literature, Stockholm, 7 December 1993 (taken from Toni Morrison’s What Moves at the Margin, Selected Nonfiction, University Press of Mississippi, 2008) ![]() What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.” What it is to have no home in this place. “Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. White, for use by participants in the Kay Falk Literary Project in Asheville, NC. ![]() These questions were composed by Emilie T. The novel was originally published in 1973. Please note: The page numbers given below are from the First Vintage International Edition of Sula, June 2004. ![]() ![]() Questions and Proposals about Toni Morrison’s novel, Sula (1973) ![]()
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