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On Notbohm and Friedman’s Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated
No full textSteven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated. Edited by Brent Notbohm and Lester D. Friedman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. 212 pp., ISBN 9781496824028 (pb), US $30.95
“...And the Gods Made Love”: Jimi Hendrix, Édouard Glissant, and the Critique of Sonic Empiricism
No full textThe Stories Plants Tell: An Introduction to Vegetal Narrative Cultures
No full textOur introduction aims to contest narrative as an anthropocentric proper and delineates current theories, methods, and challenges of conceiving plants as both storytellers and storied matter. Our issue fits into the larger frame of a recent “vegetal turn” within the humanities that has long been used to find plants marginal, mute, or symbolic supplements to human stories. The introduction, therefore, focuses on forms of vegetal creativity and narrativity. It explores vegetal narrative cultures emerging when (1) plants co-author and shape narrative practices, (2) plant stories partake in the creation of multispecies societies, and (3) plant articulations are embedded in narrative contexts