Animals, plants, and landscapes : an ecology of Turkish literature and film / edited by Hande Gurses, Irmak Ertuna-Howison.
The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape. Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film, will be the first major study to offer fresh theoretical insight into this landscape, by offering a collection of anal...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Ecocriticism, World Literature, and Pedagogies; PART 1 Anatolian Landscapes, History, Gender, and Trauma; 1 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia: The Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics of Confronting the Past in Turkey; 2 Grape Gatherers and Goat Herders: The Portrayal of Anatolian Village Women's Interaction with the Natural Environment in Contemporary Turkish Film; PART 2 Non-human Subjectivities.
- 3 Human Violence, Nature and Poetry in Murathan Mungan's Şair'in Roman? (The Poet's Novel)4 Rethinking the Subject, Reimagining Worlds in Bilge Karasu's A Long Day's Evening and Sema Kaygusuz's The Sultan and the Poet; 5 Writing Beyond the Species Boundary: Bilge Karasu's The Garden of Departed Cats and Sema Kaygusuz's Wine and Gold; PART 3 Animals of/as Sovereignty; 6 Dogs of Modernity; 7 Violence and the Validation of Male Identities through Canine Others in Kaan Müjdeci's Sivas (2014) and Emin Alper's Frenzy (Abluka, 2015); 8 Encounter with Snakes in Fakir Baykurt's Revenge of the Snakes.