Green Ink: Plant-human Relations in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction
In this talk, Astrid Møller-Olsen shares her ongoing research on how contemporary Sinophone works of fiction use botanical characters, plant imagery and green environments to create alternative realities, explore possible futures and deal with traumatic pasts. Through an interdisciplinary theoretical framework based on critical plant studies, environmental humanities and gender studies, Dr Møller-Olsen shows how plants figure as partly human monsters, planetary partners, or ecological avengers in works by Chi Hui 迟卉, Yan Ge 颜歌, Dorothy Tse’s 謝曉虹, Alai 阿来, Chu T’ien-hsin 朱天心, and Dung Kai-cheung 董啟章.
Dr Astrid Møller-Olsen is an international research fellow with the Universities of Lund, Stavanger and Oxford, funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Date:
11 November 2022, 17:00 (Friday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue:
Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details:
Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
Speaker:
Dr Astrid Møller-Olsen (Lund University)
Organising department:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Organiser:
Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
information@chinese.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Clare Orchard
