ABSTRACT
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
part I|17 pages
Beginnings
part II|88 pages
Globalization and Transmediality
chapter 2|17 pages
Videogame Adaptation of Literary Texts and Global Influences
chapter 4|11 pages
Mashing Up the Bible's Passion Story
part III|45 pages
Global Shakespeares
chapter 9|12 pages
Adaptation as Renewal
chapter 10|14 pages
Lines of Control and Global Social Justice
part IV|52 pages
Contesting Gender in Global Hollywood
chapter 11|16 pages
The Rebel Trilogy
chapter 12|12 pages
Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues and Seder-Masochism
chapter 13|10 pages
Borderlands Adaptation
part V|67 pages
The Global and the National
chapter 16|9 pages
Fetishizing Localism and Adapting Yangsze Choo's The Ghost Bride
part VI|67 pages
Recuperating the Past for the Global Present
chapter 20|23 pages
Looking at Adaptation From a Distance
chapter 21|13 pages
Adaptation at the Time of Climate Crises
chapter 22|14 pages
Possessed Ecologies
chapter 23|15 pages
De-Colonizing Cloudcuckooland
part VII|12 pages
Spinoffs