Overview
- Examines deconstructive ecocriiticism
- Takes a cross-disciplinary and comparative approach
- Considers Turkish and American ecocritcism and ecopoetics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment (LCE)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Toward a Theory of Entanglement
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Collective Living, Connective Reading
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Bodies, Ecologies, Politics
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Latife Tekin
- Juliana Spahr
- thisconnectionofeveryonewithlungs
- Well Then There Now
- Posthumanism
- Ecologies and politics
- Rüyalar ve Uyanışlar Defteri
- Urbanization, ecological decay, and ecopolitics
- comparative ecocriticism
- ecopoetics
- intersection between nature and society
- ecocritical theory
- Derrida and ecocriticism
About this book
This book foregrounds entanglement as a guiding concept in Derrida’s work and considers its implications and benefits for ecocritical thought. Ergin introduces the notion of "ecological text" to emphasize textuality as a form of entanglement that proves useful in thinking about ecological interdependence and uncertainty. She brings deconstruction into a dialogue with social ecology and new materialism, outlining entanglements in three strands of thought to demonstrate the relevance of this concept in theoretical terms. Ergin then investigates natural-social entanglements through a comparative analysis of the works of the American poet Juliana Spahr and the Turkish writer Latife Tekin. The book enriches our understanding of complicity and accountability by revealing the ecological network of material and discursive forces in which we are deeply embedded. It makes a significant contribution to current debates on ecocritical theory, comparative literature, and ecopoetics.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Meliz Ergin is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Koç University, Istanbul. She has published essays on contemporary Turkish and European literature, literature and philosophy, migration, ecocriticism, and eco/poetics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ecopoetics of Entanglement in Contemporary Turkish and American Literatures
Authors: Meliz Ergin
Series Title: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63263-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63262-9Published: 23 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87512-5Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63263-6Published: 11 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3157
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3165
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 244
Topics: Comparative Literature, Literary Theory