Turkish Ecocriticism -

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction by Serpil Oppermann and Sinan Ak?ll?

Part I: Ancient Nature cultures and Latter-day Ecospirituality

Chapter 1: The Contemporary Reflections of Tengrism in Turkish Climate Change Fictions by Fatma Aykanat

Chapter 2: Toxic Agentic Legacy in Turkish Waters: From Sacrosanct Bodies to Toxic Bodies of Water by Pelin K?mbet

Chapter 3: Turkey's First Ecologist: Cevat ?akir Kaba?a?l?, The Fisherman of Halicarnassus by Roger Williams

Part II: Urban Ecologies

Chapter 4: Irrigating and Weeding the Bostan in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Turkish Literature by Aleksandar Shopov

Chapter 5: Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: Memories and the City and the Local-Global Tension in Ecocritical Place Studies by Scott Slovic

Chapter 6: Urban Ecologies/Urbanatures of ?stanbul in Contemporary Turkish Novel by G?l?ah G??men

Chapter 7: Y?ar Kemal's Ecopoetics of the Sea: Loss of Marine Biodiversity in Turkey's Coastal Waters by Adem Balc?

Part III: Animals: Past Reflections

Chapter 8: Human-Animal Relations in Neolithic Anatolian Art: the Heritage of the Bull by Louise Westling

Chapter 9: Ottoman Ecocriticism and Political Ecology: Horse-Human Relationships in Evliya ?elebi and After by Donna Landry

Chapter 10: Then There are the Packs of Dogs: Turkish Street Dogs, Nineteenth-Century British Travelers, and Tourist Wonders by Jeanne Dubino

Part IV: Animals: Present Reflections

Chapter 11: When Horses and Human Beings Meet in Anatolia: Towards a Critical Examination of the Tradition of Y?lk? Horses by Emre Koyuncu

Chapter 12: Writing and Animal(ity) in Contemporary Turkish Fiction by Meliz Ergin

Chapter 13: Precarious Lives of Animals and Humans through the Lens of Contemporary Turkish Literature by ?zlem ???t Yaz?c?o?lu and Ezgi Hamza?ebi

Part V: Ecological Arts, Aesthetics, and Performance

Chapter 14: The Ecophobia/Biophilia Spectrum in Turkish Theatre: Anatolian Village Plays and (Karag?z-Hacivat) Shadow Plays by Simon C. Estok and Z. Gizem Y?lmaz Karahan

Chapter 15: Postecological Aesthetics and Contemporary Turkish Art in the Anthropocene by Kerim Can Yazg?no?lu

Chapter 16: Speculative Ecologies of Plastics in the Environmental Aesthetics of P?nar Yold? by Burcu Baykan

Chapter 17: Spiritus Domus: The Decorum of Ecological-Ecesis by Creativity by Yusuf Eradam

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