Turkish Ecocriticism

From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes

Serpil Oppermann (Anthology Editor) , Sinan Akilli (Anthology Editor) , Sinan Akilli (Contributor) , Fatma Aykanat (Contributor) , Adem Balci (Contributor) , Burcu Baykan (Contributor) ,
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Turkish Ecocriticism

From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes

Serpil Oppermann (Anthology Editor) , Sinan Akilli (Anthology Editor) , Sinan Akilli (Contributor) , Fatma Aykanat (Contributor) , Adem Balci (Contributor) , Burcu Baykan (Contributor) ,
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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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published 10 Dec 2020
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 320
ISBN 9781793637031
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 38 b/w photos;
Dimensions 239 x 162 mm
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

SO
Anthology Editor

Serpil Oppermann

SA
Anthology Editor

Sinan Akilli

SA
Contributor

Sinan Akilli

FA
Contributor

Fatma Aykanat

AB
Contributor

Adem Balci

BB
Contributor

Burcu Baykan

JD
Contributor

Jeanne Dubino

YE
Contributor

Yusuf Eradam

ME
Contributor

Meliz Ergin

SE
Contributor

Simon C. Estok

GG
Contributor

Gülsah Göçmen

EH
Contributor

Ezgi Hamzaçebi

EK
Contributor

Emre Koyuncu

PK
Contributor

Pelin Kümbet

DL
Contributor

Donna Landry

ÖY
Contributor

Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu

SO
Contributor

Serpil Oppermann

AS
Contributor

Aleksandar Shopov

SS
Contributor

Scott Slovic

LW
Contributor

Louise Westling

RW
Contributor

Roger Williams

KY
Contributor

Kerim Can Yazgünoglu

ZK
Contributor

Zümre Gizem Yilmaz Karahan

Reviews

  • Situated at the nexus of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, this volume calls us to reconnect present-day eco-cultural practices with humanity’s roots of 12,000 years past. At the crossroads of Anatolia, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea, Turkey’s ancient sites such as Göbekli Tepe and Çatal Höyük provide texts of human interanimality, and the sweep of this volume recuperates Turkey’s human-ecological arts, narratives, and cultural-economic practices, placing this history in conversation with the urgent eco-crises of the Capitalocene.

    Greta Gaard, University of Wisconsin–River Falls

  • Growing from the ecological diversity of the intersection of three continents and the intellectual fertility of three disciplines—ecocriticism, the environmental humanities, and Turkish literary and cultural studies—this generous volume introduces Anglophone critics to ancient and modern Turkish ecological thought. It is a gift for which we are grateful.

    Helena Feder, author of Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture

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