SOS

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In Morrison's work, suicide operates on two
revolutionary levels: Within the story, it functions
as a political form of resistance--a break in
history--and within the narrative structure, it
comprises a discursive strategy, an organizational
axis around which meanings revolve--a break in textual
time. First, I want to discuss the difficulty of
talking about suicide and its ontological relevance to
revolutionary struggles. Then, I will turn to
Morrison's novels, reading them not
according to their publication dates but according to
the chronological order of the
represented suicides in U.S. American history.


African American Review
Fall, 2000

Revolutionary Suicide in Toni Morrison's
Fiction.(Critical Essay)
Author/s: Katy Ryan

This cat named Ploy want to die. He want to 
jump off the ship after a navy dentist
cut his teeth. A gargantuan Negro named
Dahoud explains the existential reality of living on 
the Scaffold. Ploy transfered to a float on 
the Impulsive. 

No Mercy, 

PDB


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