Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Mod. Pitt, Pitt, Paperback**

Botanical ImaginationRethinking Plants in Modern Japan\nAuthor(s): Jon L. Pitt, Ann Sherif\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501780950, 978-1501780950\nSynopsis\nBotanical Imagination explores the complicated legacy and enduring lure of plant life in modern Japanese literature and media. Using 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.\n\n Pitt 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 t.