Wardi Anissa Janine - Toni Morrison And The Natural World An Ecology Of Color - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Toni Morrison And The Natural World An Ecology Of Color
Author(s): Wardi Anissa Janine
Publisher: University Press Of Mississippi
Barcode: 9781496834164
Pages: 198 Pages, 12 Black & White Illustrations
Publication Date: 6/28/2021
Category: Ethnic Studies