Research Article

An Ecosocial Reading of Slow Violence in Latife Tekin’s Manves City

Number: 46 December 16, 2021
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An Ecosocial Reading of Slow Violence in Latife Tekin’s Manves City

Abstract

Ecocriticism is an increasingly heterogeneous movement under which a variety of approaches fall. One of these approaches is Ecosocialism which expands the critical scope towards environmentally serious social issues within cities. The theory combines revolutionary and green perspectives to promote equality and living in harmony with nature in a classless society. At this point, Rob Nixon’s innovative concept ‘slow violence’ of which effects are not immediate but dispersed time and space has been frequently associated with Ecosocialism. Through ecosocial lenses, slow violence can be considered as a common threat for environment and society since the theory perceives both as cheap resources gradually exploited for profit. The environmental and social effects of such violence strikingly appear in Latife Tekin’s Manves City1 (2018) in which a post-industrial small town and its inhabitants’ tragic lives are portrayed. Based on Tekin’s socialist and green perspectives which are frequently adopted in her literary works, Manves City, in which exploitative attitude of employers towards nature and workers and the gradual extinction of nature in parallel with the degradation in domestic life of local people are discussed as essential themes, lends itself Ecosocial criticism. In analyzing the novel through ecosocial lenses, the paper also aims to reveal the interacting relation between environmental and social degradation through Tekin’s depiction of slow violence.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Language Studies, Creative Arts and Writing

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Publication Date

December 16, 2021

Submission Date

December 11, 2020

Acceptance Date

October 24, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Number: 46

APA
Akyol, Ö. (2021). An Ecosocial Reading of Slow Violence in Latife Tekin’s Manves City. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 46, 139-152. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1031744
AMA
1.Akyol Ö. An Ecosocial Reading of Slow Violence in Latife Tekin’s Manves City. SEFAD. 2021;(46):139-152. doi:10.21497/sefad.1031744
Chicago
Akyol, Özlem. 2021. “An Ecosocial Reading of Slow Violence in Latife Tekin’s Manves City”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, nos. 46: 139-52. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1031744.
EndNote
Akyol Ö (December 1, 2021) An Ecosocial Reading of Slow Violence in Latife Tekin’s Manves City. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 46 139–152.
IEEE
[1]Ö. Akyol, “An Ecosocial Reading of Slow Violence in Latife Tekin’s Manves City”, SEFAD, no. 46, pp. 139–152, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.21497/sefad.1031744.
ISNAD
Akyol, Özlem. “An Ecosocial Reading of Slow Violence in Latife Tekin’s Manves City”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 46 (December 1, 2021): 139-152. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1031744.
JAMA
1.Akyol Ö. An Ecosocial Reading of Slow Violence in Latife Tekin’s Manves City. SEFAD. 2021;:139–152.
MLA
Akyol, Özlem. “An Ecosocial Reading of Slow Violence in Latife Tekin’s Manves City”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, no. 46, Dec. 2021, pp. 139-52, doi:10.21497/sefad.1031744.
Vancouver
1.Özlem Akyol. An Ecosocial Reading of Slow Violence in Latife Tekin’s Manves City. SEFAD. 2021 Dec. 1;(46):139-52. doi:10.21497/sefad.1031744

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