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Turkish Ecocriticism

From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes

Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Sinan Akıllı - Contributions by Sinan Akıllı; Fatma Aykanat; Adem Balcı; Burcu Baykan; Jeanne Dubino; Yusuf Eradam; Meliz Ergin; Simon C. Estok; Gülşah Göçmen; Ezgi Hamzaçebi; Emre Koyuncu; Pelin Kümbet; Donna Landry; Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu; Serpil Oppermann; Aleksandar Shopov; Scott Slovic; Louise Westling; Roger Williams; Kerim Can Yazgünoğlu and Zümre Gizem Yılmaz Karahan

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.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 320 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-7936-3703-1 • Hardback • December 2020 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
978-1-7936-3704-8 • eBook • December 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Subjects: Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Ecocritical Theory

Serpil Oppermann isprofessor of environmental humanities and the director of Environmental Humanities Center at Cappadocia University.

Sinan Akıllı 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 Akıllı

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 Şakir Kabaağaçlı, 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 İstanbul in Contemporary Turkish Novel by Gülşah Göçmen

Chapter 7: Yaşar Kemal’s Ecopoetics of the Sea: Loss of Marine Biodiversity in Turkey’s Coastal Waters by Adem Balcı

Part III: Animals: Past Reflections

Chapter 8: Human-Animal Relations in Neolithic Anatolian Art: the Heritage of the Bull by Louise Westling

Chapter 9: Ottoman Ecocriticism and Political Ecology: Horse-Human Relationships in Evliya Çelebi and After by Donna Landry

Chapter 10: “Then There are the Packs of Dogs”: Turkish Street Dogs, Nineteenth-Century British Travelers, and Tourist Wonders by Jeanne Dubino

Part IV: Animals: Present Reflections

Chapter 11: When Horses and Human Beings Meet in Anatolia: Towards a Critical Examination of the Tradition of Yılkı Horses by Emre Koyuncu

Chapter 12: Writing and Animal(ity) in Contemporary Turkish Fiction by Meliz Ergin

Chapter 13: Precarious Lives of Animals and Humans through the Lens of Contemporary Turkish Literature by Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu and Ezgi Hamzaçebi

Part V: Ecological Arts, Aesthetics, and Performance

Chapter 14: The Ecophobia/Biophilia Spectrum in Turkish Theatre: Anatolian Village Plays and (Karagöz-Hacivat) Shadow Plays by Simon C. Estok and Z. Gizem Yılmaz Karahan

Chapter 15: Postecological Aesthetics and Contemporary Turkish Art in the Anthropocene by Kerim Can Yazgünoğlu

Chapter 16: Speculative Ecologies of Plastics in the Environmental Aesthetics of Pınar Yoldaş by Burcu Baykan

Chapter 17: Spiritus Domus: The Decorum of Ecological-Ecesis by Creativity by Yusuf Eradam

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Index

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


Turkish Ecocriticism

From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes

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Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • 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.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 320 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
    978-1-7936-3703-1 • Hardback • December 2020 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
    978-1-7936-3704-8 • eBook • December 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Subjects: Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Ecocritical Theory
Author
Author
  • Serpil Oppermann isprofessor of environmental humanities and the director of Environmental Humanities Center at Cappadocia University.

    Sinan Akıllı 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.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Contents

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction by Serpil Oppermann and Sinan Akıllı

    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 Şakir Kabaağaçlı, 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 İstanbul in Contemporary Turkish Novel by Gülşah Göçmen

    Chapter 7: Yaşar Kemal’s Ecopoetics of the Sea: Loss of Marine Biodiversity in Turkey’s Coastal Waters by Adem Balcı

    Part III: Animals: Past Reflections

    Chapter 8: Human-Animal Relations in Neolithic Anatolian Art: the Heritage of the Bull by Louise Westling

    Chapter 9: Ottoman Ecocriticism and Political Ecology: Horse-Human Relationships in Evliya Çelebi and After by Donna Landry

    Chapter 10: “Then There are the Packs of Dogs”: Turkish Street Dogs, Nineteenth-Century British Travelers, and Tourist Wonders by Jeanne Dubino

    Part IV: Animals: Present Reflections

    Chapter 11: When Horses and Human Beings Meet in Anatolia: Towards a Critical Examination of the Tradition of Yılkı Horses by Emre Koyuncu

    Chapter 12: Writing and Animal(ity) in Contemporary Turkish Fiction by Meliz Ergin

    Chapter 13: Precarious Lives of Animals and Humans through the Lens of Contemporary Turkish Literature by Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu and Ezgi Hamzaçebi

    Part V: Ecological Arts, Aesthetics, and Performance

    Chapter 14: The Ecophobia/Biophilia Spectrum in Turkish Theatre: Anatolian Village Plays and (Karagöz-Hacivat) Shadow Plays by Simon C. Estok and Z. Gizem Yılmaz Karahan

    Chapter 15: Postecological Aesthetics and Contemporary Turkish Art in the Anthropocene by Kerim Can Yazgünoğlu

    Chapter 16: Speculative Ecologies of Plastics in the Environmental Aesthetics of Pınar Yoldaş by Burcu Baykan

    Chapter 17: Spiritus Domus: The Decorum of Ecological-Ecesis by Creativity by Yusuf Eradam

    About the Editors

    About the Contributors

    Index

Reviews
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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