Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film (Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture)

By: Hande Gurses and Irmak Ertuna Howison

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Synopsis: The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape. Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film, will be the first major study to offer fresh theoretical insight into this landscape, by offering a collection of analyses of key texts of Turkish literature and cinema. Through discussion of both classical and contemporary works, this volume, paves the way for the formation of a ecocritical canon in Turkish literature and the rise of certain themes that are unique to Turkish experience. Snakes, fishermen and fish who catch men, porcupines contemplating on human agency, dogs exiled on an island and men who put dogs to fights, goat herders and windy steppes of Anatolia are all agents in a territory that constantly shifts. The essays included in this volume demonstrate the ways in which the crystallized relations between human and non-human form, break, and transform.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 218 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780429584473
Related ISBNs:: 9780429198014, 9780367187477, 9780367187477
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/23/20
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Hande Gurses
Edited by:: Irmak Ertuna Howison