Turkish Ecocriticism

From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes

Serpil Oppermann, Sinan Akilli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3703-1 (ISBN)

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Turkish Ecocriticism affirms the relevance and necessity of Turkish perspectives in environmental literatures and arts, and explores the rich historical and contemporary ecoliterary and ecosocial traditions of Turkey.

Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes explores the values, perceptions, and transformations of the environment, ecology, and nature in Turkish culture, literature, and the arts. Through these themes, it examines historical and contemporary environmentally engaged literary and cultural traditions in Turkey. The volume re-imagines Turkey in its geo-social and ecocultural narratives of multiple connections and complexities, in its multi-faceted webs of histories, and in its rich multispecies stories.

Serpil Oppermann isprofessor of environmental humanities and the director of Environmental Humanities Center at Cappadocia University. Sinan Akilli is assistant professor in the department of English Language and Literature and the director of the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Cappadocia University.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction by Serpil Oppermann and Sinan Akilli
Part I: Ancient Nature cultures and Latter-day Ecospirituality
Chapter 1: The Contemporary Reflections of Tengrism in Turkish Climate Change Fictions by Fatma Aykanat
Chapter 2: Toxic Agentic Legacy in Turkish Waters: From Sacrosanct Bodies to Toxic Bodies of Water by Pelin Kümbet
Chapter 3: Turkey’s First Ecologist: Cevat Sakir Kabaagaçli, The Fisherman of Halicarnassus by Roger Williams
Part II: Urban Ecologies
Chapter 4: Irrigating and Weeding the Bostan in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Turkish Literature by Aleksandar Shopov
Chapter 5: Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City and the Local-Global Tension in Ecocritical Place Studies by Scott Slovic
Chapter 6: Urban Ecologies/Urbanatures of Istanbul in Contemporary Turkish Novel by Gülsah Göçmen
Chapter 7: Yasar Kemal’s Ecopoetics of the Sea: Loss of Marine Biodiversity in Turkey’s Coastal Waters by Adem Balci
Part III: Animals: Past Reflections
Chapter 8: Human-Ani

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Co-Autor	Sinan Akilli, Fatma Aykanat, Adem Balci
Zusatzinfo	38 b/w photos;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 239 mm
Gewicht	599 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-7936-3703-2 / 1793637032
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-3703-1 / 9781793637031
Zustand	Neuware