The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century by Chua, Brandon; Ho, Elizabeth;

Short description:

This Companion offers new perspectives on contemporary literary adaptation as a dynamically global field, providing scholars, researchers and students with a survey of key methodologies, current debates and ideologies emerging from a new and exciting phase in literary adaptation.

Long description:

The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century offers new perspectives on contemporary literary adaptation as a dynamically global field.

Featuring contributions from an international team of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers literary adaptation to be a complex global network of influences, appropriations, and audiences across a diversity of media. It offers site-specific case studies that situate literary adaptation within global market forces while challenging the homogenizing effects of globalization on local literatures and adaptation practices. The collection also provides a multi-disciplinary and transnational discussion around a wide array of topics in literary adaptation in a global context, such as soft power, decolonization, global justice, the posthuman, eco criticism, and forms of activism.

This Companion provides scholars, researchers, and students with a survey of key methodologies, current debates, and ideologies emerging from a new and exciting phase in literary adaptation.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century

Brandon Chua and Elizabeth Ho

1. Transnational Adaptation: 'The Dead,' 'Fools,' The Dead, and Fools

Liam Kruger

2. Videogame Adaptation of Literary Texts and Global Influences: A Case Study of Dracula and the Castlevania Series

Matthew Crofts

3. It’s (Still) Alive! Re-imagining Frankenstein on Page and Screen

Laura Collier and Marina Gerzic

4. Mashing-up the Bible’s Passion Story: Transmedia Adaptation and User Participation in the Post-Celluloid Era

Dorothy Wai Sim Lau

5. The Show that Never Closes: International Adaptations of Opening Night

David Pellegrini

6. Transmedia Transpositions: Beyoncé and Rosalía

Eduardo Barros-Grela and Andrea Patiño de Artaza

7. Race, Refraction, and Retconning in HBO’s Watchmen

Christopher Pizzino

8. Playing with Shakespeare in Japan

Thomas Dabbs, Kyoko Matsuyama, and Rena Endo

9. Adaptation as Renewal: the Transformative Impact of Hamlet’s Travels in the Global South

Sandra Young

10. Lines of Control and Global Social Justice: Shakespearean Adaptation, British Colonial and Contemporary India and the Question of Kashmir

Julie Sanders

11. The Rebel Trilogy: Adapted Masculinity in Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil (1999), Hulk (2003), and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016)

Jason Coe

12. Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues and Seder-Masochism: Reading Adaptation as Feminist Critique

Chinmaya Lal Thakur

13. Borderlands Adaptation: Staging and Omitting the Memories of Anti-Indigenous Violence in Bless Me, Última (2013) and Arrival (2016)

Marcela Di Blasi

14. From America to Italy and France: Queering the Many Lives of The Screaming Mimi

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

15. International Prize Culture and Transnational Adaptation

Eric Sandberg

16. Fetishizing Localism and Adapting Yangsze Choo’s The Ghost Bride: From Oral Storytelling to Netflix Production

Sanghamitra Dalal and David H. J. Neo

17. Colliding Asias: Crazy Rich Asians as Novel, Film, Adaptation, and Singapore

Edna Lim

18. Reconfiguring China: Adaptation, Cultural Prestige, and Soft Power

Yi Li

19. Adaptation in the New Turkish Cinema

M. Mert Orsler and Colleen Kennedy-Karpat

Part VI: Recuperating the Past for the Global Present

20. Looking at Adaptation from a Distance: The South Asian Vetala Tales’ Journey Across Time and Space
Ira Sarma

21. Adaptation at the Time of Climate Crises: Educating the Audience through Mythical Narratives from the Sundarbans

A. B. M. Monirul Huq

22. Possessed Ecologies: Cross-Cultural Ghosts and Transnational Environments in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Snow in Midsummer

Joanna Mansbridge

23. De-Colonizing Cloudcuckooland: Re-righting/Re-writing the Blasted Dreamscape of Manifest Destiny in Yvette Nolan’s The Birds

Phillip Zapkin

24. Cultural Criticism and the Graphic Essay: Innervation, Immersion, and Analysis

Julia Alekseyeva