Storying plants in Australian children's and young adult literature : roots and winged seeds / edited by Melanie Duckworth, Annika Herb.
Duckworth, Melanie, editor.; Herb, Annika, editor.
2023
PR9613.9 .S76 2023
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Title Storying plants in Australian children's and young adult literature : roots and winged seeds / edited by Melanie Duckworth, Annika Herb.
ISBN 9783031398889 electronic book
3031398882 electronic book
3031398874
9783031398872
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39888-9
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xix, 280 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-39888-9 doi
Call Number PR9613.9 .S76 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9/92820994
Summary 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. Melanie is co-editor of Plants in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Routledge 2022)./ Annika Herb is a researcher, writer, and Education Development Lead at the University of Newcastle, Australia, living and working on Awabakal land. Her research interests include children's and Young Adult literature, gender and sexuality, queer literature, colonial, postcolonial, and Indigenous literature, and she has published research in Westerly, M/C Journal, Girlhood Studies, and Children's Literature in Education.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Duckworth, Melanie, editor.
Herb, Annika, editor.
Series Critical approaches to children's literature.
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Introduction: Storying Plants Melanie Duckworth and Annika Herb
Part 1: Plant temporalities and belonging in picture books
Chapter 1: Aboriginal Australian Picturebooks: Ceremonial Listening to Plants Brooke Collins-Gearing
Chapter 2: Trees as Agents in/of Culture: A Diffractive Reading of Plant Representation in Welcome to Country and The Rabbits Lykke H. Alara Guanio-Uluru
Chapter 3: Longing and Belonging in the Green Worlds of Jeannie Baker Penni Russon
Part 2: Storying trees
Chapter 4: Forever and ever: the fig tree and its journey through time in Nadia Wheatley's My Place Sarah Mokrzycki
Chapter 5: The voice of the she-oak: Vegetal poetics and hope in Kirli Saunders' verse novel Bindi Melanie Duckworth
Part 3: Gumnuts and pohutakawa babies
Chapter 6: Gumnuts, Plant-Human Hybridity, and the Issue of Belonging Terri Doughty
Chapter 7: Conservation and the Flower Fairy Tradition in Avis Acres and Maurice Gee Kay Hancock and Kathryn Walls
Part 4: Winged seeds: Exile, adventure, and migration Chapter 8: Seeking Home, Discovering the Bush: The Australian Bush Envisaged in Ukrainian Children's Books Maryna Vardanian and Lydia Kokkola
Chapter 9: In quest of strangeness and freedom. The Polish perspective on Australian and New Zealand nature in texts for YA readers Maciej Wróblewski
Part 5: Vegetal visions in young adult literature
Chapter 10: omething here is completely, horribly, unnaturally wrong Uncanny Vegetation in Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff's Aurora Rising (2019) Alena Cicholewski
Chapter 11: Vegetal memory, power, and resistance Ambelin Kwaymullina's The Tribe trilogy Nicole Kennedy and Melanie Duckworth
Chapter 12: hen something started growing in the emptiness Revisiting the lost child and the bush in Australian colonial and postcolonial fiction Annika Herb.

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