Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel

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

• 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.