%0 Journal Article 
%A Oppermann, Serpil
%T Enchanted by Akdeniz: The Fisherman of Halicarnassus’s Narratives of the Mediterranean
%D 2013
%@ 2171-9594
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20236
%X In the cultural narratives of Akdeniz (White Sea), the Turkish name for the Mediterranean sea, the people living on Turkey’s Aegean and Mediterranean shores have been defined in terms of their interconnections with their seas. For example, the Sumerians in 3000 BC called the western Anatolians the “people living in the sunny garden by the sea,” and later the Egyptians referred to the Aegeans as “the people living in the art of the sea.” The ancient traditions, and the biodiversity of Turkey’s Mediterranean shores have produced a polysemic cultural imaginary reflected in the writings of Turkish novelists and poets. This essay focuses on the Fisherman of Halicarnassus, the pen name of Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (1886-1972), who depicted the Mediterranean landscapes and the marine environments as powerful sites of ecological enchantment. I discuss his poetics of marine life, and the flora and fauna specific to Bodrum peninsula, as literary reflections of quantum nonlocality, the principle of inseparability of all material processes. The permeable boundaries in his narratives between life in the sea and on the land inevitably recall this quantum principle. He also launches the sea fauna as translocal entities without any sense of demarcations. Epitomizing Mediterranean ecocriticism, his emphasis on the ethical partnership between human and nonhuman life has immensely contributed to bringing the biological diversity and cultural richness of the region to public attention and in raising ecological awareness about the endemic species of the Bodrum peninsula.

%K The Fisherman of Halicarnassus
%K Bodrum
%K Anatolia
%K Blue Voyage
%K Ecology of culture
%K Biodiversity
%K Nonlocality
%K Translocality
%K El Pescador de Halicarnaso
%K Viaje Azul
%K Ecología de la cultura
%K Biodiversidad
%K No localidad
%K Translocalidad
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Medio ambiente
%K Environmental science
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