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

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.

Plants, Places, and Power is a study of plants and landscapes in and beyond contemporary German—language literature and film. Stories and images of plants and landscapes in cultural productions are key sites for exposing the violent legacies of German colonialism and Nazism and for addressing contempora...