Criticism of Anthropocene Approach and Humanised Animals in Izzet Yasar’s Camdan Mezbahalar

Abstract

The writer and poet Izzet Yasar (1951-2018) focuses on the human-animal conflict in his collection of stories entitled Camdan Mezbahalar. Criticising the Anthropocene approach along with the social dynamics, his stories criticise the human-animal relationship from a materialist perspective. While critiquing the human who has the power to dominate nature, the collection confronts the human with his own powerlessness in his world through the animals that are his subjects. By bringing together human and animal identities in the context of critical animal readings, this study offers a textual literary reading at the heart of the critique of the Anthropocene.