Radical Botany : Plants and Speculative Fiction / / Antónia Szabari, Natania Meeker |
Autore | Meeker Natania |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.93353 |
Soggetto topico |
Plants in literature
Plants in motion pictures Speculative fiction - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
Plant fiction
critical plant studies materialisms posthumanism speculative literature and philosophy vegetal ontology |
ISBN | 0-8232-8665-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Radical botany: an introduction -- Chapter 2. Libertine botany and vegetal modernity -- Chapter 3. Plant societies and enlightened vegetality -- Chapter 4. The inorganic plant in the romantic garden -- Chapter 5. The end of the world by other means -- Chapter 6. Plant horror: love your own pod -- Chapter 7. Becoming plant nonetheless -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813120003321 |
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New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2019] | ||
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Storying plants in Australian children's and young adult literature : roots and winged seeds / / edited by Melanie Duckworth and Annika Herb |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 280 pages) |
Disciplina | 306.4409113 |
Collana | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature Series |
Soggetto topico |
Plants in literature
Children's literature, Australian - History and criticism Young adult literature, Australian - History and criticism |
ISBN | 3-031-39888-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Storying Plants-Roots and Winged Seeds -- Storying Plants: Plant Inscription, Weaving, and Indigenous Knowings -- Critical Plant Studies -- Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature -- Critical Plant Studies and Children's and Young Adult Literature -- Wooden Birds and Winged Seeds -- References -- Part I: Plant Temporalities, Roots, and Belonging in Picturebooks -- Chapter 2: Aboriginal Australian Picturebooks: Ceremonial Listening to Plants -- References -- Chapter 3: "We Feel the Roots of This Land Beneath the Soles of Our Bare Feet": A Diffractive Reading of Plant Representation in Welcome to Country and The Rabbits -- Approaching Cultural Epistemologies Through Materiality and Dialogue -- Other-Than-Human Timescales and the Cultural Time of Material Remains -- Clearing the Filter -- Welcome to Country: A Visitor's Journey -- The Rabbits: From Care to Destruction -- Deforestation and Habitat Destruction in The Rabbits -- Colonial Botany -- The Tree as an Intercultural Figure -- References -- Chapter 4: Longing and Belonging in the Green Worlds of Jeannie Baker -- No Trees That Are Not Kin -- Time Makes Nothing Happen -- Learning to Read the Signs -- Another Kind of Silence -- Ask How Not What -- References -- Part II: Storying Trees -- Chapter 5: Forever and Ever: The Fig Tree and Its Journey Through Time in Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins' My Place -- Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Voices -- The My Place Fig Tree -- My Place as a Plant-Centred Narrative -- The Fig as a "Survivor Tree" and Keeper of Memories -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: The Voice of the She-oak: Vegetal Poetics and Hope in Kirli Saunders's Verse Novel Bindi -- She-oak Trees and Country in Bindi -- She-oaks in Poetry and Story.
Bindi's Vegetal Poetics -- Poetry in First Languages -- Fire, Plants, and People -- References -- Part III: Gumnuts and Pohutukawa Babies -- Chapter 7: Gumnuts, Plant-Human Hybridity, and the Issue of Belonging -- Settler Anxiety of Belonging Versus Indigenous Belonging -- The Genealogy of the Gumnuts -- Hybrid Gumnuts -- Hybrid Bad Banksia Men -- Hybrid Plant People and Belonging? -- References -- Chapter 8: Conservation and the Flower Fairy Tradition in Avis Acres and Maurice Gee -- The Flower Fairy Tradition -- Hutu and Kawa: Embodiments of Nature -- Hutu and Kawa: Model Conservationists -- Environmental Disruption -- Maurice Gee: A Fallen World -- References -- Part IV: Winged Seeds: Exile, Adventure, and Migration -- Chapter 9: Seeking Home, Discovering the Bush: The Australian Bush Envisaged in Ukrainian Children's Books -- Plants in Ukrainian Culture -- The Bush as a Colonised Place -- The Bush as Seen Through the Ukrainian Gaze -- Aboriginal Relations with the Bush in Ukrainian Australian Writing -- The Bush as Individual Plants -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: In Quest of "Green Strangeness" and Freedom: Polish Perspectives on Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Plants in Texts for Young Adult Readers -- "Green Strangeness" and Human Freedom -- The Mysteries of the Island of Aotea -- The Mysteries of the Southern Islands -- Tomek in the Land of Kangaroos -- Conclusion -- References -- Part V: Visioning and Revisioning Plants in Young Adult Literature -- Chapter 11: "Something Here Is Completely, Horribly, Unnaturally Wrong": Uncanny Vegetation in Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff's Aurora Rising -- The Uncanny, EcoGothic, and Australian Young Adult Fiction -- "A Continuous Creeping Spread": The Ra'haam's Vegetal Tools -- "The Nearest Thing to a Human, Without Being One": Confronting Animal Testing. "It's Inside Me Now": Cat's Transformation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Vegetal Memory, Community, and Power in Ambelin Kwaymullina's The Tribe Trilogy -- The Tribe: Plants, Country, and Indigenous Futurism -- The Firstwood: Trees Are Family Too -- The Deepwood and the Leafers: Vegetal Agency and Excess -- Taffa Beans: Transcendent Visions -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: "Then Something Started Growing in the Emptiness": Revisiting the Lost Child in the Bush in Australian Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction -- The Bush and the Lost Girl -- Seven Little Australians -- A Little Bush Maid -- Tomorrow When the War Began Series -- The Tribe Series -- Revisiting the Lost Girls -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910746963803321 |
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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