Table of Contents
Introduction: Tree
Some Trees I’ve Seen (poems)
The Tree, in Theory
Trees and the Desire for Affinity
Will This Too Have Been a Tree? Biblical and Biological Trees of Life-Science
The Tree of Non-Being: Where Abdelkader and Ibn Arabi Respond to Deleuze and Guattari’s Mille Plateaux
Eating Trees, Becoming Buddhas:Trees and the Possibility of History
Emerson’s Banyan-Rhizomatics
The Avenging Tree
Grieving with the Forest: La Fontaine’s La Forêt et le Bûcheron
Tree, Fire, Human: Representing Allyship
Tree Substance in the Cathedral-Novel Notre-Dame de Paris
What the Pines Do Not Know
A Gathering in a Forest: The Unsettling Environment and Culinary Ethics of Marie NDiaye’s The Cheffe
The Sylvan Ghosts of Class Mobility
From Breadfruit to Oranges: Haitian Tales of Belonging
On Roots and Burial
Shade is My Refuge
“Going, coming back, turning around”: Arrival(s) at the Trees as Attunement to Ecological Change
Toward a Tree
Bernard Réquichot, Writing Tree
Politics of Foliage
Wooden Dice Without Numbers
Arbitrary Limbs
Dead Tree, Living Figure; or, the Contemporary Prometheus
The Tree at the End of the World
The Livid Tree
Uprooting Violence:Transgenerational Legacies and Entangled Memories in Ananda Devi’s L’arbre fouet
Daphne in the Anthropocene
So You Were Born in a Dream
A True Tree Story
Pines
Excavations: On Glissant’s Trees