Turk Edebiyatinda Iklim Kurgu
Bildiriler > Özet Bildiri · 2023
Yazarlar: Nesrin YAVAŞ
Turk Dili ve Edebiyati Arastirmalarinda Yeni Yaklasimlar 2023: Cevre, Dil ve Edebiyat, Türkiye, Ankara, Uluslararası, Sözlü Sunum, Özet Bildiri, 2023-2023, ss 38-38
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<p>Turkish Climate Change Fiction</p><p>Nesrin Yavaş</p><p>Dr. Öğr. Üyesi, Ege Üniversitesi</p><p class="ql-indent-1"><br></p><p class="ql-indent-1">Climate change is a global risk that threatens human and non-human species, ecosystems, biological diversity, and the Earth's natural cycles. Anthropogenic climate change and the risks it entails have been widely discussed, projected, and mainly communicated via scientific discourses. The 2000s have</p><p class="ql-indent-1">witnessed the rise of climate change fiction, especially in the second decade of this century. In the context of Turkish literature, there have been few examples of climate change fiction, even though Turkey is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world in terms of climate change. A brief survey of Turkish climate change fiction yields works, such as Oya Baydar’s<em> Köpekli Çocuklar Gecesi</em> (2019), Buket Uzuner’s <em>Hava </em>(2018), and Aslı Perker’s “Günübirlikçiler” (2018). These three cli-fi narratives, told from the perspective of our culture, tackle the issue of climate change employing different storyworlds.</p><p class="ql-indent-1"><em>Köpekli Çocuklar Gecesi</em> is an ecodystopia inspired by the myths of the Seven Sleepers and the biblical flood narrative. Blended with mythological elements and stories from ancient Turkish culture, <em>Hava</em> is a detective fiction that revolves around the journalist Defne Kaman’s struggles against the construction</p><p class="ql-indent-1">of nuclear power plants as an alternative to fossil fuels in a climatically changing Turkey; “Günübirlikçiler” is a post-apocalyptic short fiction, which portrays an İstanbul ridden with crime, violence, epidemic, and hunger due to desertification. The late consensus on the failure of scientific</p><p class="ql-indent-1">knowledge to communicate the urgency of the situation to the non-scientific masses has brought about the need for narratives to communicate a “hyperobject” like climate change, which is massively distributed in time and space. Do the fictional narratives in question in this paper respond to the</p><p class="ql-indent-1">representational challenges of the climate change phenomenon? To put it another way, how do these climate fictions fare in addressing the problems in telling the story of climate change?</p>