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

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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.

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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.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction : Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century

Brandon Chua and Elizabeth Ho

Part I: Beginnings

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

Liam Kruger

Part II: Globalization and Transmediality

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

Part III: Global Shakespeares

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

Psrt IV: Contesting Gender in Global Hollywood

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

Part V: The Global and the National

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

Part VII: Spinoffs

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

Julia Alekseyeva

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