Özlem Ö¿üt Yaz¿c¿o¿lu

Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel

Stories Beyond Nature-Culture Divide

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Produktbeschreibung

In Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel, Özlem Ö¿üt Yaz¿c¿ölu examines shamanism as a significant trope in a selection of contemporary novels. Yaz¿c¿ölu finds that these works ultimately challenge anthropocentric and androcentric discourses and offer alternative perspectives for social and environmental justice on an endangered planet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781498591157
• ISBN-10: 1498591159
• Artikelnr.: 62756143

Autorenporträt

Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu is associate professor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Bogaziçi University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Shamanism, Animism, and Totemism in North-East Asian Indigenous
Contexts
Chapter 1: Being With: Transcorporeal Imagination in The Last Quarter of
the Moon
Chapter 2: If Confucius Hadn't Said: Rewriting History from the Memory of
Water in Fang Qi's Elegy of a River Shaman
Chapter 3:Why It Matters What We Can Afford To Each Other: Of Wolves and
Men in Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem
Part II: Shamanistic-Animistic Insights for Social and Environmental
Justice Today
Chapter 4: Bodies and Souls: Diffractive Seeing in Angela Carter's Nights
at the Circus and Elif Shafak's The Gaze
Chapter 5: Resisting With Myths and Books in Water and Earth by Buket
Uzuner
Conclusion