Inci Bilgin Tekin - Böcker

With the advent of posthumanism, many scholars in the humanities have started to explore a transforming conception of the “human,” recognizing the limits of “anthropocentricism” both within and between disciplines. Posthumanism may be defined in various ways but the emphasis in this volume is on the idea of constitutive alterity, not simply in the relationship between human beings and other human beings, but in that between human beings and other species and life forms, and between human beings, nature and technology. As a result, Encounters with the Posthuman and the Environment is located at a crossover between posthumanism and environmental humanities. Between them they move not only between disciplines but also between levels of abstraction, from the most general reflection to the most everyday empirical detail. At the same time, all the chapters are case studies, whether they address particular aspects of philosophical or scientific posthumanism, analyze particular pieces of film, theatre, art, literature, or recall for us instructive episodes from social history. The aim at any rate is to give a feel for the range and depth of the posthumanist problematic within the wider context of environmental humanities.

This study aims at examining the contemporary stage adaptations of «Othello» by the four noteworthy contemporary playwrights Ann Marie MacDonald, Djanet Sears, Paula Vogel and Toni Morrison, while discussing their plays both within and outside the framework of Adaptation Studies. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist theories along with psychoanalytical theories and theories of adaptation, this book explores the adaptive levels, contexts and strategies of the four women playwrights in revising «Othello». The anxiety of canonization that the contemporary women playwrights experience, is also addressed as an issue parallel to their authorial relations with Shakespeare. In the hands of contemporary women playwrights, «Othello» thematically makes a call for new contemporary women’s perspectives and technically provides an everlasting space for further feminist adaptations, already becoming a signifier of the signification process itself.

The essays in this volume engage with questions concerning the relationships between fictional texts and environmental issues in their various articulations, and offer critical readings that display the theoretical diversity in the current reconsiderations of the place of human in relation to nature and the environment. Written by scholars working in separate yet closely related disciplines in the field of humanities, the essays present analyses of literary and cultural texts, performed with the critical tools provided by studies in ecology, ecofeminism, urban studies, posthumanism and animal studies as well as genre-specific approaches.

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 havethought 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... Whileeach essay, in their specific contexts, explores “the nonhuman bodies”, it should beonce again noted that this volume was inspired by all of the inhabitants of the Worldthat are inevitably connected by geographical relation and physical interaction aswell as through collective traumas incorporated into individual stories.The essays in this volume focus on the relationship between human and nonhumanbodies while offering in-depth analyses and various insights on their specificsubjects, exploring transformed contexts, literary traditions, and genres, guided byrich theoretical engagements with posthumanism, ecocriticism, and digital humanities.As our writers’ essays speak to one another, the whole collection reflects on thenotion of “connection” within the universe.

This study explores intertextual and intergeneric relations with a specific focus on their interactions with contemporary literary theory. The volume engages with the works of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Jean Rhys, and Djanet Sears. It examines crosscultural and Indigenous adaptations, postcolonial and feminist appropriations, and screen adaptations as central strands within current debates in adaptation studies.