{"product_id":"9781501780967-botanical-imagination","title":"Botanical Imagination","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRethinking Plants in Modern Japan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBotanical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores the complicated legacy and enduring lure of plant life in modern Japanese literature and media. \u003c\/b\u003eUsing critical plant studies, Jon L. Pitt examines an unlikely group of writers and filmmakers in modern Japan, finding in their works a desire to \"become botanical\" in both content and form. For nearly one hundred years, a botanical imagination grew in response to moments of crisis in Japan's modern history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePitt shows how artists were inspired to seek out botanical knowledge in order to construct new forms of subjectivity and attempt to resist certain forms of state violence. As he follows plants through the tangled histories of imperialism and state control, Pitt also uncovers the ways plants were used in the same violence that drove artists to turn to the botanical as a model of resistance in the first place. \u003ci\u003eBotanical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e calls on us to rethink plants as significant but ambivalent actors and to turn to the botanical realm as a site of potentiality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55642609582454,"sku":"9781501780967","price":126.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36848366.jpg?v=1761316388","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781501780967-botanical-imagination","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}