Unheard Voice and Resistance - Depiction of Space in Sula
Abstract
Sula vividly recreates the life of black people at the bottom, reflecting their survival dilemmas and their struggles. Because the growth experience of Sula and Nel is the main line of the story and the wonderful spatial description interspersed with it is ignored, this paper is based on bell hooks' theory, analyzing the subjective transformation and the idea of speaking for black people reflected in the spatial description. Through analysis, it can be found that the novel's spatial depiction visualizes abstract concepts, both physical space with boundaries and natural and social space without boundaries, showing the anti-white supremacy and the transformation of the narrative subject from the side. There are many metaphors in the spatial depiction of the article. Analyzing the metaphors in black literature combined with spatial depiction may provide reference for more minority literary writing and direct public attention to the plight faced by minorities.
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