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Radical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. The book traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants within literature and art for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought.
List of contents
Preface | vii
1. Radical Botany: An Introduction | 1
2. Libertine Botany and Vegetal Modernity | 28
3. Plant Societies and Enlightened Vegetality | 56
4. The Inorganic Plant in the Romantic Garden | 86
5. The End of the World by Other Means | 114
6. Plant Horror: Love Your Own Pod | 144
7. Becoming Plant Nonetheless | 171
Acknowledgments | 203
Notes | 205
Works Cited | 253
Index | 269
About the author
Natania Meeker is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of
Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment (Fordham, 2006), coauthor (with Antónia Szabari) of
Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction (Fordham, 2020), and coeditor of
Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance, 600 B.C.E. to the Present (Routledge, 1997).
Summary
Radical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. The book traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants within literature and art for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought.
