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However, Ajax runs away from Sula when he notices that Sula seems to start taking their relationship more seriously and shows a propensity to possess him. Both Ajax and Sula practice sexual autonomy/anarchy, yet discriminatory gender ideology sets up different destinies and futures for them. Sula is troubled by and resists black folks’ criticism and vilification whereas Ajax walks away free of trouble. Clearly, Sula’s body is a gendered body. The previous contention that patriarchal gender ideology underpins black folks’ mass hysteria in opposition to Sula compensates for the critical unfilled space in Susan Neal Mayberry’s “Something Other Than Family Quarrel: The Beautiful Boys in Morrison’s Sula.” Assuming Morrison’s book to be a public

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