2026/03/17 by Prudence Gibson · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #German Colonialism and Identity Studies #German Literature and Culture Studies #Literature and Cultural Memory
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openalex publication_date 2026/03/17 · openalex created_date 2026/03/18 · openalex updated_date 2026/03/20
Joela Jacobs' new book Animal, Vegetal, Marginal is a timely work that interrogates fascism, censorship and the turn-ofthe-twentieth-century provocateurs whose humour never lost its aim.Jacobs begins her German literary grotesque book on Grotesken with masturbating plants.The concept of plants and sex is a hot topic.Stella Sandford's 2023 Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants, for example, asks what a philosophy of plant sex might be from the point of view of plants. 1 Jacobs takes a more literary approach by focusing on animals, plants and marginalised Jews within the works of several key works from German grotesque literature.Jacobs' book contributes to the phytopoesis praxes within the Plant Humanities field. 2 Phytopoesis is where authors co-create with the vegetal world as a response to misunderstandings about plant agency, independence and, in this case, vegetal sexuality.She does this through her critical analysis of the Grotesken literary tradition.