Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and historical aspects of the representation of plants in Australian children’s and young adult literature, encompassing colonial, postcolonial, and Indigenous perspectives. While plants ten...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Duckworth, Melanie 19XX- (HerausgeberIn), Herb, Annika (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cham Springer Nature Switzerland 2023 Cham Palgrave Macmillan
Schriftenreihe:	Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1918-20221 Pflanzen > Motiv Jugendliteratur Kinderliteratur Englisch Australien Children's Literature World Literature Ecocriticism Children's literature, Australian / History and criticism Young adult literature, Australian / History and criticism Plants in literature Littérature de jeunesse australienne / Histoire et critique Littérature pour jeunes adultes australienne / Histoire et critique Plantes dans la littérature Children's literature, Australian Aufsatzsammlung
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Zusammenfassung:	Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and historical aspects of the representation of plants in Australian children’s and young adult literature, encompassing colonial, postcolonial, and Indigenous perspectives. While plants tend to be backgrounded as of less narrative interest than animals and humans, this book, in conversation with the field of critical plant studies, approaches them as living beings worthy of attention. Australia is home to over 20,000 species of native plants – from pungent Eucalypts to twisting mangroves, from tiny orchids to spiky, silvery spinifex. Indigenous Australians have lived with, relied upon, and cultivated these plants for many thousands of years. When European explorers and colonists first invaded Australia, unfamiliar species of plants captured their imagination. Vulnerable to bushfires, climate change, and introduced species, plants continue to occupy fraught but vital places in Australian ecologies, texts, and cultures. Discussing writers from Ambelin Kwaymullina and Aunty Joy Murphy to May Gibbs and Ethel Turner, and embracing transnational perspectives from Ukraine, Poland, and Aotearoa New Zealand, Storying Plants addresses the stories told about plants but also the stories that plants themselves tell, engaging with the wide-ranging significance of plants in Australian children’s and Young Adult literature. Melanie Duckworth is an associate professor of English literature at Østfold University College, Norway. Her research interests include Australian literature, contemporary poetry, and ecocriticism, and her research is published in journals including Environmental Humanities, International Research in Children’s Literature, Bookbird, and Australian Literary Studies.
Beschreibung:	XIX, 280 Seiten
ISBN:	9783031398872
ISSN:	2753-0833
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-031-39888-9