![]() ![]() ![]() 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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