Providing a Retrospective on Inter- and Intraspecies Knotting

Essay from the year 2024 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, University of Potsdam (Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture), course: Temporalities, language: English, abstract: This annotated bibliography serves as a summary and comparison of different journal articles on the topics of inter- and intraspecies knotting, meaning the connections a species shares in said species or across other species. Setting the base for discussions on the topic of 'interspecies knotting', Deborah Bird Rose (2020) makes a conscious effort to highlight the vibrant connection between species of flora and fauna. In particular, she illustrates the temporalities of 'ethical time' and its erasure at the example of the relation between flying foxes and myrtaceous flora, elucidating concepts of synchrony and sequence in their almost symbiotic connectedness.