Ecocriticism and Turkey

Meliz Ergin is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Koç University, Turkey. She is the author of The Ecopoetics of Engtanglement in Contemporary Turkish and American Literature (2017).

Taking Turkish literature, arts, music, underwater photography, and climate science as connective threads to weave afresh the tapestry of Turkey’s diverse terraqueous environments, Meliz Ergin takes us on an exciting journey. We travel discursively through the Aegean and Mediterranean seas, the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea, and the mainland of Anatolia, and finally fold into Anatolian ecologies in multiple forms of wonder and curiosity. Gathering the rhythms of Anatolia’s eco-cultures and multispecies, Ergin’s book illuminates the region’s unique terraqueous geography, now haunted by socio-ecological troubles

• Introduction1: Sea Culturesi. The Turkish Mediterraneanii. Aegean Crossings: Bodies and Routesiii. The Marmara Sea and Island Cultures2. Mountain Cultures from West to Easti. Wanderlust: The Culture of Walkingii. Walking, Mountaineering and Ecotourismiii. Taking to the Mountains: Exile and Elegy3. Land Degradation and Its Discontentsi. Land Industries and Social Resistanceii. Vulnerable Lands: Earthquakes, Droughts, Fires4. Of Humans and Animalsi. Human-Animal Entanglementsii. Extinction, Mourning, Elegyiii. Zoopoetics and Conteporary Turkish PoetryBibliographyIndex