Botany and Empire: Olive Senior's Anticolonial Poetry

Botany was central to colonial expansion and the economic logic of empire. In this talk, Dr Sourit Bhattacharya (University of Edinburgh) explores how anticolonial writers like Jamaican poet and novelist Olive Senior reimagine agriculture and tree planting as acts of resistance and life-affirmation in the context of slavery and colonialism in the Americas.

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