What is it about?
This study examines pre-eminent Turkish cartoonist Fırat Yaşa’s graphic novel Tepe (The Hill). Set in the prehistoric period in what is now the Göbeklitepe archaeological site in Turkey, the graphic novel revolves around a friendship between a man and a deer.
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Why is it important?
This study explores the role that Göbeklitepe plays as a place, period, and architectural style in man/animal encounters. The novel disrupts the visually and verbally human-centred perspective, both by portraying various experiences of different species and by emphasising the uncanny ritualistic performances set in one of the oldest sanctuaries ever to be discovered.
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Exploring the work of Fırat Yaşa together with Betül G. Dinç was a great pleasure for me as Yaşa presents a unique artistic perspective inspired from Göbeklitepe.
Ilgim Veryeri Alaca
Koc Universitesi
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This page is a summary of: GÖBEKLİTEPE AND ECOLOGICAL THINKING: HUMAN/NATURE ENTANGLEMENT IN FIRAT YAŞA’S GRAPHIC NOVEL, TEPE (THE HILL), Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, July 2021, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2021.1905236.
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