"Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene is an edited collection that redefines the boundaries of phytocentric scholarship. By foregrounding the question of the Anthropocene at the centre of plant studies, this book illustrateshow attentiveness to plant life can allow our habitual anthropocentric/instrumental assumptions to be invaded by a unique 'phytocentric' impression that presents a new ethical imaginary for a human-plant relationship. With twelve carefully argued essays,this book sets a new benchmark in the field of Critical Plant Studies"--
Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene presents a collection of chapters that transcends geographical limits to offer boldly original and critically nuanced insights into phytocentric creative-critical enterprises. It is an essential read for scholars, environmentalists, and anyone interested in our intertwined future with plants.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
Alexandra M. Peck
Part 1: Human-Plant and Territoriality
Charles Edenshaws Fungus Man Platters and Tlingit Grave Effigies:
Exploring Human-Fungus Relationships through Agarikon Art
Alexandra M. Peck
How to Coexist: the Teaching of the Plant Kingdom at the Universities of
Coimbra and Salamanca (XVIIIXIX)
Carlos Alves
Tichigi Colors of Artistic Resistance
James Jack
Plant-Thinking and Critical Pedagogy in Costa Rica: The Revolutionary Praxis
of Carmen Lyra
Juan Manuel Ávila Conejo
Part 2: Human-Plant and the Literary
The Root of the Problem: How Trees Can Be Utilized in Climate Change
Literature to Depict the Interconnectedness of Past, Present and Future
Andrea Färber
Multispecies Exchange Rates: Multicultural Plant Entanglement in The Embrace
of the Serpent
Jacob Price
Enchanting Encounters with Plants in Reshma Aquil and Sumana Roys Poems
Nesrin Eruysal
Flowering-with the Silence of Plant: Affective Attuning to the Vegetal Event
in Tang Poetry
Perkus Leung
Part 3: Human-Plant and Transfiguration
Vegetal Apophasis: Reclaiming Dark Intimacies and Un/knowing with Plants
Clara Soudan
To Be a Pixel Flower: Player-Plant Entanglement in Video Games
Carolin Becklas
Theatrics of the West, and Geopolitical Economy in the Plantationocene: Opium
Poppy and Its Nation-Based Phenomenological Understanding
Sindhura Dutta
Index
Ratul Nandi (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of English at Siliguri College, West Bengal, India. His areas of interest include the nonhuman agency and the role of arts and literature, animal studies, environmental humanities and continental philosophy. He is the author of Animal Poetics and Literary Thinking (2025).
Jagannath Basu (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Sitalkuchi College, India. He is the editor of The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer: On Writing Illnesses and Illnesses in Writing (2021) and Geographia Literaria: Studies in Earth, Ethics and Literature (2021).
Jayjit Sarkar (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Raiganj University, India. He is the author of Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot (2019).
