Toward an Affective Problematics: A Deleuze-Guattarian Reading of Morality and Friendship in Toni Morrison’s Sula
Atlantis 1 (39):113-131 (2017)
Abstract
It might sound rather convincing to assume that we owe the pleasure of reading the novel
form to our elemental repository of physical perception, to our feelings. This would be
true only if mere feelings could add up to something more than just emotions, to some deep
understanding of the human. After all, a moment of epiphany, where we begin to realize
things that dramatically disturb our normal state of mind, is not just emotional, nor indeed a
simple moment. Despite its root in the corporeal, a mo(ve)ment of affective realization reaches
beyond the realm of the human and opens up the plane of virtual potentials. In this work, we
intend to map out the points and relations of affective singularity that pervade the narrative
of Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973). Also, we will discuss how these mo(ve)ments of sensation give
form to Sula’s and Nel’s experiences and contribute to an affective transformation in morality
and friendship.
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