Toni Morrison and the Natural World

Winner of the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize for Best Single-Authored Book, 2019-2022 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 Eco