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Toni Morrison and the Natural World : An Ecology of Color /

"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 trad...

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Autor principal: Wardi, Anissa Janine, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Preface -- Introduction. "All of them colors was in me": embodiment and material ecocriticism -- Brown ecology and fertility: skin, dirt, and compost in Paradis and The Bluest Eye -- Green ecology and healing: botanical life in Beloved, Home, and Song of Solomon -- Orange ecology, death, and renewal: fire, ash, and immolation in God Help the Child and Sula -- Blue ecology and resistance: islands, swamps, and ecotones in Tar Baby and Love -- Conclusion. A black and white ecology: plantations and race formation in A Mercy and Jazz. 
520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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