Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 14:27:31 -0400
Subject: Toni Morrison and survival


In this discussion of the women in Like Water for Chocolate, and to address
the stereotype of African heritage and the concept of magical realism, I
submit an observation by W. Lawrence Hogue in his book, Discourse and the
Other. Hogue in commenting of Toni Morrison's book: "Sula" states that:
     "Morrison is concerned with the ontological structures and mythical
thought systems, outside those appropriated by the dominant society, that
blacks developed to define and reinforce their definitions of self and
existence. In short, Morrison in Sula is concened with . . . belief
structures, and the "reality" they produce, that emanate from a non-rational
Afro-American source. (Hogue 133)."


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