Garden Plots: The Politics and Poetics of GardensFocusing on a range of twentieth-century texts and including relevant twenty-first century writing, Garden Plots explores the ways in which gardens in fiction represent more than just a familiar theme. Bound up with wider aesthetic and ideological issues, gardens, like literary forms, are subject to transformations. The term 'plots' is a keyword in this approach. It refers to garden plots, literary plots, and more generally, the plotting that is political, polemical, and subversive. Each of the six chapters includes four texts that are familiar and representative. Authors include Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Carol Shields, J. M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jamaica Kincaid, and Philip K. Dick. |
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Contents
Botanical Modernisms | 1 |
Natural History and Postmodern Grafting | 61 |
Postcolonial Landscapes | 127 |
Dunes 1999 | 186 |
How Does Your Cyber Garden Grow? | 205 |
Coevolutionary Histories the Poetics of a Paradox | 223 |
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