Overall, we welcome explorations of plant-human sympoeisis in fiction for children and young adults, as well as considerations of relationships and entanglements between plants and children or adolescents in texts produced for adults. We seek internationally diverse contributions, and encourage decolonizing and non-western perspectives. Topics addressed could include (but are not limited to):
- Phyto-morphism in fiction (broadly defined) for children and young adults
- Plants and the adolescent body in young adult fiction
- Weeds in children’s and young adult literature
- Representations of plant ‘children’, adolescents, and plant families
- Plant relationships in ecobiography
- Plant metaphors in different genres of children’s and YA fiction, and across media
- Plant representation and -interaction in video games and interactive fictions for children and adolescents
- Plant characters and plant language in children’s and YA fictions
- The relationship between plants and child- and adolescent agency
- Indigenous, postcolonial, and decolonising texts linking plants with children or young adults
We invite contributions in English and French. Please submit a 300-word abstract to the editors by January 15th 2023: Melanie Ruth Duckworth: melanie.duckworth@hiof.no, Lykke Guanio-Uluru: hagl@hvl.no , and Antonia Szabari: szabari@usc.edu.
See extended CFP for more details: https://ecozona.eu/announcement/view/325