... oppression by centering her novel on the internal life of the black community. Morrison portrays their everyday struggles and in doing so exposes white ignorance of black culture and ways of life. Sula challenges the dominant ideology through the deconstruction of binary oppositions, working to demarginalize the roles of blacks as well as women in society. From the start of the novel's very first chapter, Morrison aims to show ... . This problem of lack of recognition by white society is further complicated by the nature of society, which is based on power relations. Just as Helene canno...

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