Latife Tekin'in Romanlarında Doğa ve İnsan İlişkisi

Abstract

Since the time immemorial, the relationship between nature and humanity exists in many different phases. In today's world, nature has become something that is both consumed and transformed by human beings. The relationship that humans have had with nature since the beginning has gradually been worn down and anthropocentrism has become dominant. In this study, anthropocentristic thinking of nature and contradictory perspectives to this thinking are evaluated around concepts like ethics, dialect of ecology, and land ethics in the scope of Latife Tekin’s works. Latife Tekin, who is one of the eminent authors of the Turkish novel-writing after 1980, has produced valuable novels developing nature sensitivity as seen in Sevgili Arsız Ölüm, Berci Kristin Çöp Masalları, Ormanda Ölüm Yokmuş, Unutma Bahçesi and Muinar. Focusing on the consumption of nature, these works of Latife Tekin points out many problems including the roots of the between human and nature relationship, anthropocentristic development of the conception of nature, class differentiation and poverty. In the light of the points mentioned above. this study examines multi-dimentional structure of nature sensitivity in Latife Tekin’s novels .