Toni Morrison and the Natural World

Toni Morrison and the Natural World
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 187
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ISBN-10 : 9781496834188
ISBN-13 : 1496834186
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Book Synopsis Toni Morrison and the Natural World by : Anissa Janine Wardi

Download or read book Toni Morrison and the Natural World written by Anissa Janine Wardi and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics have routinely excluded African American literature from ecocritical inquiry despite the fact that the literary tradition has, from its inception, proved to be steeped in environmental concerns that address elements of the natural world and relate nature to the transatlantic slave trade, plantation labor, and nationhood. Toni Morrison’s work is no exception. Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color is the first full-length ecocritical investigation of the Nobel Laureate’s novels and brings to the fore an unequaled engagement between race and nature. Morrison’s ecological consciousness holds that human geographies are enmeshed with nonhuman nature. It follows, then, that ecology, the branch of biology that studies how people relate to each other and their environment, is an apt framework for this book. The interrelationships and interactions between individuals and community, and between organisms and the biosphere, are central to this analysis. They highlight that the human and nonhuman are part of a larger ecosystem of interfacings and transformations. Toni Morrison and the Natural World is organized by color, examining soil (brown) in The Bluest Eye and Paradise; plant life (green) in Song of Solomon, Beloved, and Home; bodies of water (blue) in Tar Baby and Love; and fire (orange) in Sula and God Help the Child. By providing a racially inflected reading of nature, Toni Morrison and the Natural World makes an important contribution to the field of environmental studies and provides a landmark for Morrison scholarship.


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