Özden SözalanIntroduction Sinem YazıcıoğluThe Urban Body in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” İnci Bilgin TekinAn Old Debate, New Perspectives: Cherrie Moraga’s and CarylChurchill’s Dialogues with Nature Nilay Kaya and Ekin Gündüz ÖzdemirciEmbodied Anthropocentrism in Anatolian Novel and Film Burcu Kayışcı AkkoyunIntersections, Interventions, and Utopian Pessimism in Son Ada(The Last Island) Ayşe Beyza ArtukarslanThe Cat, the Cock, the Maid and Zeberjet: The Animals ofMotherland Hotel Zeynep Talay TurnerGrizzly Man: From the Ethics of Film to the Ethics of theAnimal-Other Canan ŞavkayThe Precarious Lives of Cats in Doris Lessing’s On Cats Ferdi ÇetinDecentering the Human on Stage: Neither as Posthumanist Opera Özlem KaradağEcofeminist Ecopoetics and Carol Ann Duffy Notes on the Contributors

The essays in this volume engage with questions concerning the relationships between fictional texts and environmental issues in their various articulations, and offer critical readings that display the theoretical diversity in the current reconsiderations of the place of human in relation to nature and the environment. Written by scholars working in separate yet closely related disciplines in the field of humanities, the essays present analyses of literary and cultural texts, performed with the critical tools provided by studies in ecology, ecofeminism, urban studies, posthumanism and animal studies as well as genre-specific approaches