书目名称 | Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature | 副标题 | Roots and Winged See | 编辑 | Melanie Duckworth,Annika Herb | 视频video | | 概述 | Brings together postcolonial and Indigenous epistemologies.Includes transnational perspectives.Contributes to the growing area of plant studies and literature | 丛书名称 | Critical Approaches to Children‘s Literature | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 butvital 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, Polan | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | 关键词 | postcolonial literature; Indigenous literature; Critical plant studies; Australian literature; children‘ | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39888-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-39890-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-39888-9Series ISSN 2753-0825 Series E-ISSN 2753-0833 | issn_series | 2753-0825 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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