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 both...
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Cornell University Press
2026
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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-1714952026-02-12T10:33:07Z Botanical Imagination Pitt, Jon L. Sherif, Ann Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and 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. 2026-02-12T10:33:04Z 2026-02-12T10:33:04Z 2025 book 9781501780974 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/171495 eng Cornell University Press 10.1353/book.126882 10.1353/book.126882 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e 9781501780974 252 open access |
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| topic | Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism |
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