Botanical Imagination
Botanical Imagination explores the complicated legacy and enduring lure of plant life in modern Japanese literature and media. Using critical plant studies, Jon L. Pitt examines an unlikely group of writers and filmmakers in modern Japan, finding in their works a desire to ""become botanical"" in bo...
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| description | Botanical Imagination explores the complicated legacy and enduring lure of plant life in modern Japanese literature and media. Using critical plant studies, Jon L. Pitt examines an unlikely group of writers and filmmakers in modern Japan, finding in their works a desire to ""become botanical"" in both content and form. For nearly one hundred years, a botanical imagination grew in response to moments of crisis in Japan's modern history.
Pitt shows how artists were inspired to seek out botanical knowledge in order to construct new forms of subjectivity and attempt to resist certain forms of state violence. As he follows plants through the tangled histories of imperialism and state control, Pitt also uncovers the ways plants were used in the same violence that drove artists to turn to the botanical as a model of resistance in the first place. Botanical Imagination calls on us to rethink plants as significant but ambivalent actors and to turn to the botanical realm as a site of potentiality. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1578772025-07-30T09:00:06Z Botanical Imagination Pitt, Jon L. shokubutsusei, phytomorphism, botanical subjectivity, Osaki Midori, Imanishi Kinji, Abe Kōbō, Haniya Yutaka, plant studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism Botanical Imagination explores the complicated legacy and enduring lure of plant life in modern Japanese literature and media. Using critical plant studies, Jon L. Pitt examines an unlikely group of writers and filmmakers in modern Japan, finding in their works a desire to ""become botanical"" in both content and form. For nearly one hundred years, a botanical imagination grew in response to moments of crisis in Japan's modern history. Pitt shows how artists were inspired to seek out botanical knowledge in order to construct new forms of subjectivity and attempt to resist certain forms of state violence. As he follows plants through the tangled histories of imperialism and state control, Pitt also uncovers the ways plants were used in the same violence that drove artists to turn to the botanical as a model of resistance in the first place. Botanical Imagination calls on us to rethink plants as significant but ambivalent actors and to turn to the botanical realm as a site of potentiality. 2025-03-28T04:15:23Z 2025-03-28T04:15:23Z 2025-03-27T11:01:41Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100380 9781501780967 9781501780950 9781501780981 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/157877 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100380/1/9781501780974.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100380/1/9781501780974.pdf Cornell University Press 10.7298/e1kt-v303 10.7298/e1kt-v303 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e 9781501780967 9781501780950 9781501780981 252 open access |
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