Journal article
That Seed Sets Time Ablaze: Vegetal Temporality in Judith Wright’s Botanical Poetics
Environmental philosophy, Vol.14(2), pp.163-189
2017
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Abstract
The time of vegetal life itself—denoted as plant-time in this article, following the work of Michael Marder—is essential to human-plant relations. Conceptualized as a multi-dimensional plexity, vegetal temporality embodies the endemic land-based seasons, rhythms, cycles, and timescales of flora in conjunction with human patterns. The contemporary poet Judith Wright invoked a time-space continuum throughout her writing as a means to convey the primordial character of Australian plants while resisting the imposition of a colonialist schema of time. Wright’s bold textualization of vegetal temporality embodies her commitment to fostering botanical ethics and locally-grounded activism on behalf of Aboriginal people and the Australian environment.
Details
- Title
- That Seed Sets Time Ablaze: Vegetal Temporality in Judith Wright’s Botanical Poetics
- Creators
- John Charles Ryan - Southern Cross University, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Publication Details
- Environmental philosophy, Vol.14(2), pp.163-189
- Publisher
- Philosophy Documentation Center
- Identifiers
- 991013063413002368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article