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List of contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Land:
Chapter One
Herman Melville's Near East Journal and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's Five Cities:Affinities of Culture, Nature, and Islamic Mysticism in Istanbul
Chapter Two
Nature’s Place in Political Romanticism: Selected Poems by Nâzim Hikmet
Chapter Three
Resourcing Nature: Land Ethics, Poetics and “Things I Didn’t Know I Loved” by Nâzim Hikmet
Animals:
Chapter Four
Islam, Westernization and Post-Humanist Place: The Case of the Istanbul Street Dog
Chapter Five
Ecopoetics, Dead Metaphors and Bird Migration: The Bosphorus Passage of the European White Stork
Chapter Six
The Benefits of Doubt: A Sea Turtle and the Ecological Sublime
Conclusion
Index
About the author
Kim Fortuny is Associate Professor of English at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Summary
Landscape and animals have been fundamental elements of Turkish culture from the Ottomans to the present day. This book examines representations of and attitudes toward land and animals in selected Turkish literary texts and cultural contexts. Informed by global debates in ecocriticism, ecopoetics and animal studies, Kim Fortuny explores literary and arts activism, as well as environmental interventions in the Turkish cultural sphere in light of ongoing ecological degradation in Turkey. Writers from the Turkish canon such as Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar and Nâzim Hikmet are explored alongside American and English texts to reveal common transnational environmental and ecological concerns across these distinct literary cultures. Analysing works of Turkish literature within the emerging field of ecocriticism, this interdisciplinary work will be of interest to scholars of Turkish and comparative literature and animal studies and ecocriticism across the humanities.
Foreword
A comparative study of ecocritical themes within Turkish literature
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A seminal and original work of meticulous scholarship, expertly organized and presented, and enhanced for academia … Animals and the Environment in Turkish Culture: Ecocriticism and Transnational Literature is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to college and university library collections.
