Book Description

The articles collected in this special issue devoted to what we are calling “Arboreal Ecocriticism” exhibit tree-consciousness in a variety of cultural, linguistic, and national traditions, including Australian Aboriginal poetry, Moroccan fiction, Indian activist prose, Turkish shamanistic fiction, French literature, and Taiwanese folklore.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Scott Slovic, Shiuhhuah Serena Chou

Gija Jumulu: Arboreal Ecocriticism and the Australian Boab 

John Charles Ryan

Arboreal Attachment/Detachment 

The Felling of a Lonesome Tree in Muhammad Zafzāf’s “The Sacred Tree” 

Marianne Marroum   

Toward an Arboreal Poetics 

Aaron M. Moe   

Life Writing as Plant-Writing: Arboreal Encounters in Kallen Pokkudan’s Kandalkaadukalkkidayil Ente Jeevitham

Varna Venugopal, Swarnalatha Rangarajan   

Buket Uzuner’s Fire and Sacred Trees: An Interview and Impressions 

Pinar Batur, Ufuk Özdağ   

The Healing Mathematics of Life in a Gesture: Jean Giono’s The Man Who Planted Trees

Françoise Besson   

Trees in Taiwanese Folklore 

Yujun Yang