Turkish Ecocriticism

Serpil Oppermann isprofessor of environmental humanities and the director of Environmental Humanities Center at Cappadocia University.Sinan Akilli is assistant professor in the department of English Language and Literature and the director of the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Cappadocia University.

Situated at the nexus of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, this volume calls us to reconnect present-day eco-cultural practices with humanity’s roots of 12,000 years past. At the crossroads of Anatolia, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea, Turkey’s ancient sites such as Göbekli Tepe and Çatal Höyük provide texts of human interanimality, and the sweep of this volume recuperates Turkey’s human-ecological arts, narratives, and cultural-economic practices, placing this history in conversation with the urgent eco-crises of the Capitalocene.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction by Serpil Oppermann and Sinan AkilliPart I: Ancient Nature cultures and Latter-day EcospiritualityChapter 1: The Contemporary Reflections of Tengrism in Turkish Climate Change Fictions by Fatma AykanatChapter 2: Toxic Agentic Legacy in Turkish Waters: From Sacrosanct Bodies to Toxic Bodies of Water by Pelin KümbetChapter 3: Turkey’s First Ecologist: Cevat Sakir Kabaagaçli, The Fisherman of Halicarnassus by Roger WilliamsPart II: Urban EcologiesChapter 4: Irrigating and Weeding the Bostan in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Turkish Literature by Aleksandar ShopovChapter 5: Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City and the Local-Global Tension in Ecocritical Place Studies by Scott SlovicChapter 6: Urban Ecologies/Urbanatures of Istanbul in Contemporary Turkish Novel by Gülsah GöçmenChapter 7: Yasar Kemal’s Ecopoetics of the Sea: Loss of Marine Biodiversity in Turkey’s Coastal Waters by Adem BalciPart III: Animals: Past ReflectionsChapter 8: Human-Ani