Ecocriticism and Turkey

Professor Meliz Ergin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350470224 (ISBN)

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Situated between Europe and Asia, and surrounded by three seas, Turkey comprises a diverse environmental and cultural tapestry. Ecocriticism and Turkey is the first in-depth study to explore Turkish literary and cultural engagements with the environment. Ergin examines a wide range of ecocritical issues across four thematically organized chapters: “Sea,” “Climate,” “Routes,” and “Animals.” Each chapter addresses various dimensions of anthropogenic ecological change and highlights the role of literature in inspiring hope and action.
The book takes readers on various journeys from the coasts of the Aegean Sea to the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. Ergin converses with both twentieth-century writers to shed new light on familiar texts and contemporary writers to capture emerging perspectives, including Rum, Laz, Kurdish, and Armenian voices in her discussion. The study is further enriched by an interdisciplinary inquiry that brings literature into dialogue with climate science, political history, underwater photography, folk music, and bio-art.

Meliz Ergin is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Koç University, Turkey. She is the author of The Ecopoetics of Engtanglement in Contemporary Turkish and American Literature (2017).

Introduction
1: Sea Cultures
i. The Turkish Mediterranean
ii. Aegean Crossings: Bodies and Routes
iii. The Marmara Sea and Island Cultures
2. Mountain Cultures from West to East
i. Wanderlust: The Culture of Walking
ii. Walking, Mountaineering and Ecotourism
iii. Taking to the Mountains: Exile and Elegy
3. Land Degradation and Its Discontents
i. Land Industries and Social Resistance
ii. Vulnerable Lands: Earthquakes, Droughts, Fires
4. Of Humans and Animals
i. Human-Animal Entanglements
ii. Extinction, Mourning, Elegy
iii. Zoopoetics and Conteporary Turkish Poetry

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Environmental Cultures
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781350470224 / 9781350470224
Zustand	Neuware