Full Description
Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu's Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel examines how shamanism is used as a significant trope in a selection of novels. 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. Yazicioglu illustrates how the animalistic cosmologies of the nomadic societies and the ritual practices of shamans in these stories offer alternative perspectives to the long dominant anthropocentric conception of the universe, which underlies the overextraction of the earth's natural resources and the large-scale destruction of ecosystems under global capitalism.
Contents
Introductıon
Part I: Shamanism, Animism, and Totemism in North-East Asian Indigenous Contexts
Chapter 1: Being With: Transcorporeal Imagination in The Last Quarter of the Moon
Chapter 2: If Confucius Hadn't Said: Rewriting History from the Memory of Water in Fang Qi's Elegy of a River Shaman
Chapter 3:Why It Matters What We Can Afford To Each Other: Of Wolves and Men in Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem
Part 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 Gaze
Chapter 5: Resisting With Myths and Books in Water and Earth by Buket Uzuner
Conclusion
