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T1 Enchanted by Akdeniz: The Fisherman of Halicarnassus’s Narratives of the Mediterranean
A1 Oppermann, Serpil
K1 The Fisherman of Halicarnassus
K1 Bodrum
K1 Anatolia
K1 Blue Voyage
K1 Ecology of culture
K1 Biodiversity
K1 Nonlocality
K1 Translocality
K1 El Pescador de Halicarnaso
K1 Viaje Azul
K1 Ecología de la cultura
K1 Biodiversidad
K1 No localidad
K1 Translocalidad
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB 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.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2013
FD 2013-10
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20236
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20236
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 19-abr-2024