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The Role of Nature in Toni Morrison's Beloved: An Ecofeminist Perspective

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Rafea Mohsin Alwan,

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Toni Morrison, through her novel “Beloved”, has brought into focus the exploitation of women and the environment. For this very reason, the aim of the study is to examine the complexity of embedding natural aspects within this text in the light of ecofeminist theoretical framework to unravel the role of nature in this novel. The study, therefore, aims to explore how Morrison in her novel "Beloved" has handled nature and employed it in a way to expose questions of gender and race. Thus, the descriptive qualitative method was employed in this study using the techniques of textual analysis. The conducted research was analyzed in terms of ecofeminist literary criticism by using thematic analysis. This study traces the role of nature and its association with women in the novel.

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