Narrative Culture, Volume 10, Number 2, Fall 2023 (The Stories Plants Tell)

Narrative Culture claims narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective to grasp its place comparatively across time and space. Inviting contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, the journal seeks to offer a platform that integrates approaches spread across numerous disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. 

Narrative Culture
Volume 10, Number 2, Fall 2023

The Stories Plants Tell: An Introduction to Vegetal Narrative Cultures
Frederike Middelhoff, Arnika Peselmann

A Philosophy of Stories Plants Tell
Michael Marder

Narrative Trees: Arboreal Storytelling and What It Means for Reading
Solvejg Nitzke

Plants as Inventors: Interrogating Human Exceptionalism within Narratives of Law and Vegetal Life 
Laura A. Foster

I Dream of Seeing the Steppe Again: Plant Stories in the Context of Russia's War on Ukraine
Darya Tsymbalyuk

"Stories are seeds. We need to learn how to sow other stories about plants."
Natasha Myers, Frederike Middelhoff, Arnika Peselmann