Becoming Violent: Sula’s World Ending Capacity as an Anti-Relational Figure

This essay looks at the question of Blackness as an anti-relational position insofar as social death organizes the landscape of being-in-the-world. I will turn to Morrison’s exploration of her character Sula to examine how black religious notions of sociality does not consider the ways that antiblackness configures Blackness as the ultimate symbol of abjection and positions the social death of blackness as the threat to all communal aspirations. How does a an inability to be organized into coherent legible communities maintain the aporia of  social contracts,and represent the specter of violence structuring all claims of love, culture, and beloved community. Is Sula violent because she betrays or is she violent because she is inherently anti-relational and therefore can never stabilize the social contracts that are fundamentally built upon opposing her abject position in the bottom?  To Whom can Blackness belong in community with, and what can be gleaned from understanding relationality itself as the violence that structures Blackness’s anti-relational positionality.