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February 25, 2018

The Ecopoetics of Entanglement in Contemporary Turkish and American Literatures

McIntyre Amy

The Ecopoetics of Entanglement in Contemporary Turkish and American Literatures By Meliz Ergin. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

This book foregrounds entanglement as a guiding concept in Derrida’s work and considers its implications and benefits for ecocritical thought. Ergin introduces the notion of “ecological text” to emphasize textuality as a form of entanglement that proves useful in thinking about ecological interdependence and uncertainty. She brings deconstruction into a dialogue with social ecology and new materialism, outlining entanglements in three strands of thought to demonstrate the relevance of ...