Author/Authors :
SAATÇIOĞLU, Ece Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi - Edebiyat Fakültesi - Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Turkey
Abstract :
The Fisherman of Halicarnassus (Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı) is known as a short story, novel, memoir and essay author who writes about the flora, climate and nature of the Aegean and the Mediterranean regions and the inhabitants who live on the shore and even on the sea. This study, from an ecocritical stance, scrutinizes the novel titled Aganta Burina Burinata to reveal how the writer depicts human-nature relationship and the way(s) nature shapes and reconstructs human identity. Ecocriticism is an interdisciplinary critical approach which mainly studies the relationships among nature and its surroundings, language and literature, analyzes the ties between human culture and environment, and explores human and nature attachments as well as culture and environment interactions. The Fisherman of Halicarnassus, in his Aganta Burina Burinata, just like in many of his works reflects both the uniqueness and the interrelatedness of the ecosystem, flora, humans, nonhumans, meteorology, geographical structures, natural beauties, cultures, economic and social conflicts of the regions from a holistic standpoint. In this novel, the author criticizes the lifestyle of those who exploit the land, and in order to unite with nature he promotes life on sea for it makes social equalization possible
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Ecocriticism , The Fisherman of Halicarnassus , Aganta Burina Burinata , nature and human relationship , sea in literature
