1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century
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.
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
Biography
Brandon Chua is Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong and author of Ravishment of Reason: Governance and the Heroic Idioms of the Late Stuart Stage, 1660–1690 (2014).
Elizabeth Ho is Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong and author of Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire (2012). She is Editor- in-Chief of ASAP/Journal, the scholarly journal of ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.
