Over the years, African American literature has become an important
part of the literary tradition of the United States. With this boom
of popularity it is important to move beyond binary classifications
to study these works as boundaries are being challenged and
rewritten. This book, therefore, provides a hybrid discussion about
Toni Morrison's Sula and A Mercy focusing on the contradictory
aspects of women bonds. It is suggested that such bonds are not
simply determined by biological factors or limited to black women,
as motherhood and sisterhood help the characters shape their own
subjectivities and struggle for empowerment. However, the
alteration of the ethics of care causes many of these women bonds
to rupture as the characters resort to unconventional actions to
survive in a racist and sexist society. Thus, this book provides an
alternative vision of women bonds and the ethics of care, in which
the women characters cannot be judged according to essentialist
paradigms of good and bad.
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