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Title Animals, plants, and landscapes : an ecology of Turkish literature and film / edited by Hande Gurses, Irmak Ertuna-Howison
Published New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 217 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Series Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture.
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
Summary 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 analyses of key texts of Turkish literature and cinema. Through discussion of both classical and contemporary works, this volume, paves the way for the formation of a ecocritical canon in Turkish literature and the rise of certain themes that are unique to Turkish experience. Snakes, fishermen and fish who catch men, porcupines contemplating on human agency, dogs exiled on an island and men who put dogs to fights, goat herders and windy steppes of Anatolia are all agents in a territory that constantly shifts. The essays included in this volume demonstrate the ways in which the crystallized relations between human and non-human form, break, and transform
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Hande Gurses is a lecturer at the Comparative Literature Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Irmak Ertuna Howison received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University. Her teaching and research interests include feminist crime fiction, science fiction and fantasy, literary theory and criticism
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Subject Turkish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Turkish literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Nature in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Motion pictures -- Turkey -- History
Nature in motion pictures.
Ecology in motion pictures.
Landscapes in motion pictures.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Modern -- 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Modern -- 21st century.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film -- History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Ecology in literature
Ecology in motion pictures
Landscapes in literature
Landscapes in motion pictures
Motion pictures
Nature in literature
Nature in motion pictures
Turkish literature
Turkey
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Gurses, Hande, editor.
Ertuna-Howison, Irmak, editor.
ISBN 9780429198014
0429198019
9780429580352
0429580355
9780429582578
0429582579
9780429584473
0429584474