Plants, Places, and Power: Toward Social and Ecological Justice in German Literature and Film

Maria Stehle

doi:10.1017/9781800108707

Plants, Places, and Power

Toward Social and Ecological Justice in German Literature and Film

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Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: January 2024
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781800108707
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800108707

Subjects:: Literature, Film, Literary Texts, Film, Media, Mass Communication
Series:: Women and Gender in German Studies

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Examines portrayals of plants and landscapes in recent German novels and films, addressing the contemporary forms of racism, nationalism, and social and ecological injustice that they expose.

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Plants, Places, and Power

Toward Social and Ecological Justice in German Literature and Film

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Preface and Acknowledgments: People and Places
pp vii-x

Introduction: Living in Relation: Plants, Place-Making, and Social Justice
pp 1-25

1 - Landscapes: Infrastructures, Power Topographies, and Feral Gardens in Juli Zeh's Unterleuten (2016), Valeska Grisebach's Western (2017), and Anna Sofie Hartmann’s Giraffe (2019)
pp 26-57

2 - Uncanny Gardens: Migration and Belonging in Dörte Hansen's Altes Land (2015) and Saša Stanišić's Herkunft (2019)
pp 58-77

3 - Trees, Roots, and Anti-Racism in Ilija Trojanow's Nach der Flucht (2017), Mo Asumang's Roots Germania (2007) and Die Arier (2014), and Elliot Blue's Home? (2018)
pp 78-105

4 - Defiant Flowers and ManufacturedHappiness in Vera Chytilová's Daisies (1966), Pipilotti Rist's Pepperminta (2009), and Jessica Hausner's Little Joe: Glück ist ein Geschäft (2019)
pp 106-129

5 - Senses, Queer Interrelations, and Decolonial Geographies in Yōko Tawada's Das nackte Auge (2004), Shari Hagen's Auf den zweiten Blick (2012), and Faraz Shariat's Futur Drei (2020)
pp 130-155

Epilogue: Erasures and Different Stories
pp 156-160

Bibliography
pp 161-172

Index
pp 173-176

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