1st Edition
Exploring Ecological Issues in Graphic Narratives
Introduction – Kenan Koçak
1. Ecological Art Practice and Cultural Ecology in/of Bhimayana: Incidents in the Life of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (2011) – Ashwarya Samkaria
2. Postcolonial Ecocriticism in Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land – Banu Akçeşme
3. Ecology & Memory – Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä and Gébé’s L’an 01 as case studies – Bettina Egger
4. An Ecofeminist Analysis of Kate Beaton’s Ducks – Betül Ateşci Koçak
5. Humanised Environments for Dehumanised Humans in Yūichi Yokoyama’s Travel – Hugo Noronha de Almeida
6. Unsettling the Space: Spatiality and Human/Animal Dualism in Shaun Tan’s Tales from the Inner City (2018) – Michelle Chan
7. “The Green is Dying”: A Study of Ecological Dystopia in Appupen’s Graphic Novel, The Snake and The Lotus – Nandini Maity
8. To See a World in a Drop of Water: Children of the Sea and a Biosemiotic Narrative of Affective Attunement – Leung Chun-Kit Perkus
Biography
İfakat Banu Akçesme is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Erciyes University, Kayseri. She received her BA in English Language Teaching from Dokuz Eylul University (2000), her MA in English Language and Literature from Erciyes University (2003). She completed her PhD in English Literature at METU in 2010. She currently serves as a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Erciyes University, Türkiye. Her research interests include modern and postmodern fiction, feminism, gender studies and ecocriticism.
Betül Ateşci Koçak earned her B.A. in American Culture and Literature from Istanbul University in 2006. She subsequently completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in Advanced English Studies: Languages and Cultures in Contact at the University of Salamanca, Spain. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Erciyes University, Türkiye. Her research interests include women’s studies, American literature, migration studies, and film studies.
Kenan Koçak completed his BA in English Language and Literature at Ankara University in 2007. He earned his MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Thought from the University of Sussex in 2010, followed by a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Glasgow in 2015. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Erciyes University. His research interests include comics and visual narratives, travel writing, and Turkish cultural and visual history.
