This book brings together literary analysis, womanist theology, Black feminist ecologies, and decolonial development theory to establish a new methodological framework for interpreting sustainability through African diasporic literature. At a time when global development agendas frequently reduce sustainability to technocratic interventions and data metrics, this monograph highlights the power of literature as a site of critical engagement and ethical reimagination. Ecowomanist literary praxis—the aesthetic, spiritual, and political labor of African diasporic women’s writing—challenges the marginalization of underrepresented communities within dominant environmental discourses. Spanning genres and geographies including the speculative fiction of Octavia E. Butler and the postcolonial ecopoetics of Jamaica Kincade, the book argues that these creative works cultivate ethical orientations and political consciousness that can meaningfully inform more inclusive and accountable understandings of sustainability and global justice.

Mohammad Rahmatullah is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Daffodil International University, Bangladesh. He co-authored Exploring Dark Comedy in Ecological Literature: Echoes of Laughter in the Capitalocene with Nagendra Kumar and Tanu Gupta (2025).