Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene

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).

• ForewordAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsList of Figures and TablesIntroductionAlexandra M. PeckPart 1: Human-Plant and TerritorialityCharles Edenshaw’s “Fungus Man” Platters and Tlingit Grave Effigies: Exploring Human-Fungus Relationships through Agarikon ArtAlexandra M. PeckHow to Coexist: the Teaching of the Plant Kingdom at the Universities of Coimbra and Salamanca (XVIII–XIX)Carlos AlvesTēichigi Colors of Artistic ResistanceJames JackPlant-Thinking and Critical Pedagogy in Costa Rica: The Revolutionary Praxis of Carmen LyraJuan Manuel Ávila ConejoPart 2: Human-Plant and the LiteraryThe Root of the Problem: How Trees Can Be Utilized in Climate Change Literature to Depict the Interconnectedness of Past, Present and FutureAndrea FärberMultispecies Exchange Rates: Multicultural Plant Entanglement in The Embrace of the SerpentJacob PriceEnchanting Encounters with Plants in Reshma Aquil and Sumana Roy’s PoemsNesrin EruysalFlowering-with the Silence of Plant: Affective Attuning to the Vegetal Event in Tang PoetryPerkus LeungPart 3: Human-Plant and TransfigurationVegetal Apophasis: Reclaiming Dark Intimacies and Un/knowing with PlantsClara SoudanTo Be a Pixel Flower: Player-Plant Entanglement in Video GamesCarolin BecklasTheatrics of the West, and Geopolitical Economy in the Plantationocene: Opium Poppy and Its Nation-Based Phenomenological UnderstandingSindhura DuttaIndex