University Press of Mississippi Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color

Review Anissa Janine Wardi takes Morrison research in an entirely new direction. Her discussion of Morrison's use of the natural world is seamlessly grounded in scientific knowledge so that the reader comes away with a much more complex understanding of the essential connection of the human world to its environment than is typical. Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color is a tremendously sophisticated text, resisting a narrow comprehension of what literary criticism is.--Shirley A. Stave, coeditor of New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's "God Help the Child" Race, Culture, and History Product Description null About the Author Anissa Janine Wardi is professor of English and African American literature at Chatham University. She is author of Water and African American Memory: An Ecocritical Perspective and Death and the Arc of Mourning in African AmericanLiterature, and her work has appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, ISLE, and MELUS.