Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel - Stories Beyond Nature-Culture Divide

In Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel, Özlem Ö¿üt Yaz¿c¿ölu examines shamanism as a significant trope in a selection of contemporary novels. Yaz¿c¿ölu finds that these works ultimately challenge anthropocentric and androcentric discourses and offer alternative perspectives for social and environmental justice on an endangered planet.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: Shamanism, Animism, and Totemism in North-East Asian Indigenous Contexts
Chapter 1: Being With: Transcorporeal Imagination in The Last Quarter of the Moon
Chapter 2: If Confucius Hadn't Said: Rewriting History from the Memory of Water in Fang Qi's Elegy of a River Shaman
Chapter 3:Why It Matters What We Can Afford To Each Other: Of Wolves and Men in Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem
Part II: Shamanistic-Animistic Insights for Social and Environmental Justice Today
Chapter 4: Bodies and Souls: Diffractive Seeing in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Elif Shafak's The Gaze
Chapter 5: Resisting With Myths and Books in Water and Earth by Buket Uzuner
Conclusion

About the author

Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu is associate professor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Bogaziçi University.

Product details

• Authors: Yaz&, Özlem Ö& Yaz&305;c&305;o&287;lu, Özlem Ö¿üt Yaz¿c¿o¿lu, Oezlem Oegut Yazicioglu, Ozlem Ogut Yazicioglu, Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu, Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781498591157
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9115-7
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Posthumanism, Animism, Social and cultural anthropology, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: from c 2000, feminist ecocriticism, ecoethics