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The essays in this volume engage with questions concerning the relationships between fictional texts and environmental issues in their various articulations, and offer critical readings that display the theoretical diversity in the current reconsiderations of the place of human in relation to nature and the environment. Written by scholars working in separate yet closely related disciplines in the field of humanities, the essays present analyses of literary and cultural texts, performed with the critical tools provided by studies in ecology, ecofeminism, urban studies, posthumanism and animal studies as well as genre-specific approaches.
List of contents
Özden Sözalan
Introduction
Sinem Yazicioglu
The Urban Body in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd"
Inci Bilgin Tekin
An Old Debate, New Perspectives: Cherrie Moraga's and Caryl
Churchill's Dialogues with Nature
Nilay Kaya and Ekin Gündüz Özdemirci
Embodied Anthropocentrism in Anatolian Novel and Film
Burcu Kayisci Akkoyun
Intersections, Interventions, and Utopian Pessimism in Son Ada
(The Last Island)
Ayse Beyza Artukarslan
The Cat, the Cock, the Maid and Zeberjet: The Animals of
Motherland Hotel
Zeynep Talay Turner
Grizzly Man: From the Ethics of Film to the Ethics of the
Animal-Other
Canan Savkay
The Precarious Lives of Cats in Doris Lessing's On Cats
Ferdi Çetin
Decentering the Human on Stage: Neither as Posthumanist Opera
Özlem Karadag
Ecofeminist Ecopoetics and Carol Ann Duffy
Notes on the Contributors
About the author
Özden Sözalan (PhD, Essex) is Professor of Literature and head of the English Department at ¿stanbul Bilgi University.
¿nci Bilgin Tekin (PhD, METU) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and teaches in the English Department at ¿stanbul Bilgi University.
