Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel

Stories Beyond Nature-Culture Divide

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu, Ozlem Ogut Yazicioglu, Özlem Öğ Yazıcıoğlu, Özlem Ö¿üt Yaz¿c¿o¿lu

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Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel examines how shamanism is used as a significant trope in a selection of novels. Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu contends that the shamanic figures and societies featured in these works have been subjected to marginalization, dislocation, and dispossession through imperialist, colonialist, and capitalist encroachments in different historical contexts.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-03-21
Mått162 x 228 x 21 mm
Vikt472 g
Speltid8760
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEcocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor188
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498591157

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IntroductionPart I: Shamanism, Animism, and Totemism in North-East Asian Indigenous Contexts Chapter 1: Being With: Transcorporeal Imagination in The Last Quarter of the MoonChapter 2: If Confucius Hadn’t Said: Rewriting History from the Memory of Water in Fang Qi’s Elegy of a River ShamanChapter 3:Why It Matters What We Can Afford To Each Other: Of Wolves and Men in Jiang Rong’s Wolf TotemPart 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 GazeChapter 5: Resisting With Myths and Books in Water and Earth by Buket UzunerConclusion

Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel is a strikingly multidisciplinary and multinational exploration of the role of shamanic thinking in promoting an 'environmental-ethical consciousness.' We have seen material ecocriticism receive a lot of attention in the past decade, but there has been less focus on what might be called 'spiritual ecocriticism.' Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu’s book is a lucid and authoritative contribution to the new spiritual turn in ecocriticism.