{"product_id":"botanical-imagination-rethinking-plants-in-modern-japan-paperback","title":"Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJon L. Pitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnn Sherif\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon L. Pitt is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the translator of Hiromi Ito's\u003ci\u003e Tree Spirits Grass Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 252\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837621297349,"sku":"9781501780950","price":50.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/iRqU0PwYXG9781501780950.webp?v=1771281955","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/botanical-imagination-rethinking-plants-in-modern-japan-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}