Animals, Plants, and Landscapes

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.

• Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Ecocriticism, World Literature, and Pedagogies PART I: 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 Romanı (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 Mujdeci’s Sivas (2014) and Emin Alper’s Frenzy (Abluka, 2015) 8. Encounter with Snakes in Fakir Baykurt’s Yılanların Öcü (Revenge of the Snakes)