Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan (The Environments of East Asia) - Tapa blanda

Pitt, Jon L.

 
9781501780950: Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan (The Environments of East Asia)
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ISBN 10: 1501780956 ISBN 13: 9781501780950
Editorial: Cornell University Press, 2025

Sinopsis

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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Jon L. Pitt is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the translator of Hiromi Ito's Tree Spirits Grass Spirits.

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Editorial
Cornell University Press
Año de publicación
2025
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ISBN 10 
1501780956
ISBN 13 
9781501780950
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Número de páginas
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