Turkish Ecocriticism

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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 Goebekli Tepe and Catal Hoeyuek 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. -- Greta Gaard, University of Wisconsin-River Falls Growing from the ecological diversity of the intersection of three continents and the intellectual fertility of three disciplines-ecocriticism, the environmental humanities, and Turkish literary and cultural studies-this generous volume introduces Anglophone critics to ancient and modern Turkish ecological thought. It is a gift for which we are grateful. -- Helena Feder, author of Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture