Song of Solomon | Techniques/Literary Precedents
By most standards, Song of Solomon is technically conservative for the author of The Bluest Eye and Sula. It is unique in Morrison's canon because it takes an essentially masculine view of the quest and in that the central figure is a male. It follows the logic of the quest one of literature's true archetypes. The hero sets out looking for one thing, but learns as the quest develops that what he really needs to find is something else. Traditional variations on the quest motif involve some form of renewal — the grail quest behind much modern literature leads to a...
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