Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

✍ Scribed by Melanie Duckworth (editor), Lykke Guanio-Uluru (editor)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 221
Series: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

From the forests of the tales of the Brothers Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from the flowers of Cicely May Barker’s fairies to the treehouse in Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s popular 13-Storey Treehouse series, trees and other plants have been enduring features of stories for children and young adults. Plants act as gateways to other worlds, as liminal spaces, as markers of permanence and change, and as metonyms of childhood and adolescence. This anthology is the first compilation devoted entirely to analysis of the representation of plants in children’s and young adult literatures, reflecting the recent surge of interest in cultural plant studies within the environmental humanities.

Mapping out and presenting an internationally inclusive view of plant representation in texts for children and young adults, the volume includes contributions examining European, American, Australian, and Asian literatures and contributes to the research fields of ecocriticism, critical plant studies, and the study of children’s and young adult literatures.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
PART I:
Botanical Fascinations
1. A Relational Poetics of Plant–Human Interactions: Contrasting
the Picturebooks of Cicely Mary Barker and Elsa Beskow
2. Stamens and Pistils in the Same Flower: Queer Posthuman
Performativity of Plants in the Finnish Fairy Tale “Pessi ja
Illusia”
3. Aristotle on Plants: Life, Communion, and Wonder
PART II:
Plants in Folklore and Fantasy
4. Come into the Garden, Alice: Rude Flowers, Dream-Rushes, Aphasic Woods, and Other Plants in Lewis Carroll’s Nonsense Worlds
5. Fern Blossom and Lilibala: Magical Plants in Serbian Children’s
Fantasy Fiction
6. Vegetal Magic: Agnieszka’s Journey to the Understanding of the
Vegetal Other in Naomi Novik’s Uprooted
PART III:
Arboreal Embraces
7. Arboreal and Maternal Desires: Trees and Mothers in recent
Australian Middle-Grade Fiction
8. Arboreal Entanglements: Childrenforest and Deforestation in
Ecopoetry by Children
9. “I felt like a tree lost in a storm”—The Process of Entangled
Knowing, Becoming, and Doing in Beatrice Alemagna’s
Picturebook Un grande giorno di niente (2016)
10. From Chamomiles to Oaks: Agency and Cultivation of Self- Awareness
PART IV:
Plant Agency and Activism
11. Vegetal Individuals and Plant Agency in Twenty-First Century
Children’s Literature
12. Vegetable Violence: The Agency, Personhood, and Rhetorical
Role of Vegetables in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The
52-Storey Treehouse
13. The Vegetal Modality of Resistance in Children’s Books by/for
Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines
Index

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