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This volume addresses its reader after Covid, a time when the distinction between
"the fantastic" or "the virtual" and "the real" was blurred and what man would have
thought to be a part of an American science fiction movie, became a real experience.
A viral attack blocking life globally and a half online life experience thereafter... While
each essay, in their specific contexts, explores "the nonhuman bodies", it should be
once again noted that this volume was inspired by all of the inhabitants of the World
that are inevitably connected by geographical relation and physical interaction as
well as through collective traumas incorporated into individual stories.
The essays in this volume focus on the relationship between human and nonhuman
bodies while offering in-depth analyses and various insights on their specific
subjects, exploring transformed contexts, literary traditions, and genres, guided by
rich theoretical engagements with posthumanism, ecocriticism, and digital humanities.
As our writers' essays speak to one another, the whole collection reflects on the
notion of "connection" within the universe.
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
Inci Bilgin Tekin (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor at Istanbul Bilgi University, English
Department. Bilgin Tekin is the author of two books as well as articles on mythology,
adaptation and reception studies, postcolonial and feminist literature, contemporary
drama, Shakespeare studies and posthumanism.
Özden Sözalan (Ph.D.) is Professor and Head of English Department at Istanbul Bilgi
University. She has published books and articles on contemporary theories of literature
and theatre. Her recent research interest involves environmental literature.
