Flora Fantastic : From Orchidelirium to Ecocritical Contemporary Art (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Flora Fantastic. An Introduction
Corina L. Apostol and Tashima Thomas

Part I, Colonial Legacies and Natural Intersections: Critical Perspectives on Culture, Nature, and Identity

Chapter 2. A Ripening Injury
Michael Marder

Chapter 3. Estonians, Orchids, and Exotic Others: Baltic Colonial Entanglements Revisited
Ulrike Plath

Chapter 4. Against ‘Orchidelirium’ and ‘Pornotropics’: Indonesian Artists on the Coloniality of Nature, Gender, and Race
Sadiah Boonstra

Chapter 5. Propagated in Obscurity: Bermuda Grass and Rhizomatic Queerness
C.C. McKee and Jamison Edgar

Chapter 6. Scores for the Sensitive
Dennis Dizon

Part II, Botanical Narratives: Art, Ecology, and Postcolonial Reflections

Chapter 7. Botanical Timeline
Corina L. Apostol

Chapter 8. Addressing Erasures and Imagining Resistance: On Working with Colonialism and Memory, Environment and Extractivism in the Age of Crisis
Kristina Norman and Linda Kaljundi

Chapter 9. Unmasking the Palm Oil Paradox: Elia Nurvista's 'Long Hanging Fruits'
Corina L. Apostol

Chapter 10. Gardening in the Beautiful ‘Wake’ of Empire in the work of Ebony G. Patterson at New York Botanical Gardens
Tashima Thomas

Chapter 11. From Soil to Subversion: The Artistic Alchemy of Nikita Kadan
Corina L. Apostol

Chapter 12. Unearthing the Blind Spots of Botanical History: An Exploration of Uriel Orlow's 'Theatrum Botanicum'
Corina L. Apostol

Chapter 13. Red Forests, Table Manners: Zina Saro-Wiwa's Artistic Reclamation of Ecological and Cultural Identity
Corina L. Apostol

Chapter 14. Interlacing Roots and Feminine Forms: Wangechi Mutu's Ecological Reflections on Hybridity and Transformation
Corina L. Apostol

Chapter 15. Botanical Monstrosity and Kincentric Ecologies in the Work of Firelei Baez
Tashima Thomas

Glossary of Botanical Terms
Corina L. Apostol and Tashima Thomas

Index

Biographies