Animals and the Environment in Turkish Culture

Kim Fortuny is Associate Professor of English at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her previous books include American Writers in Istanbul: Melville, Twain, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Bowles, Algren, Baldwin, (Syracuse University Press, 2009) and Elizabeth Bishop: The Art of Travel (University Press of Colorado, 2003). She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Middle Eastern Literatures, Journal of Turkish Literature, Textual Practice and Nineteenth-Century Contexts.

Foreword
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Land:

Chapter One
Herman Melville's Near East Journal and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's Five Cities:Affinities of Culture, Nature, and Islamic Mysticism in Istanbul

Chapter Two
Nature’s Place in Political Romanticism: Selected Poems by Nâzim Hikmet

Chapter Three
Resourcing Nature: Land Ethics, Poetics and “Things I Didn’t Know I Loved” by Nâzim Hikmet

Animals:

Chapter Four
Islam, Westernization and Post-Humanist Place: The Case of the Istanbul Street Dog

Chapter Five
Ecopoetics, Dead Metaphors and Bird Migration: The Bosphorus Passage of the European White Stork

Chapter Six
The Benefits of Doubt: A Sea Turtle and the Ecological Sublime

Conclusion

Index