The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century

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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. Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors Introduction: Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century State of Adaptation Studies Now Globalizing Literary Adaptation Structure of the Book Part I: Beginnings Part II: Globalization and Transmediality Part III: Global Shakespeares Part IV: Contesting Gender in Global Hollywood Part V: The Global and the National Part VI: Recuperating the Past for the Global Present Part VII: Spinoffs References Part I Beginnings 1 Transnational Adaptation: ‘The Dead,’ ‘Fools,’ The Dead, and Fools Notes References Part II Globalization and Transmediality 2 Videogame Adaptation of Literary Texts and Global Influences: A Case Study of Dracula and the Castlevania Series Adapting Texts Into Experiential Gameplay and Overcoming ‘Boss Monsters’ Videogame Adaptations as a Product of Global Influences Adaptive Heterocosms and Videogame ‘World Building’ Conclusion: ‘The Plot Thickens’ Notes References 3 It’s (Still) Alive!: Re-Imagining Frankenstein On Page and Screen A Spark of Life: The “Birth” of Frankenstein and Its Subsequent Afterlives and Adaptations Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story (2019) Doctor Who: “ The Haunting of Villa Diodati” Notes References 4 Mashing Up the Bible’s Passion Story: Transmedia Adaptation and User Participation in the Post-Celluloid Era Adaptations in the Post-Celluloid Era Adapting the Passion Story On Screens Mashups as an Extended Form of Adapting the Passion Story Mashup #1: The Passion of Superman Mashup #2: Negotiating Gibson-The-Auteur Conclusion References 5 The Show That Never Closes: International Adaptations of Opening Night Almodóvar’s Queer Legacies Van Hove and Intermedial Adaptation as Gesamtkunstwerk Adaptation as Cross-Medial Dialogue: Cyril Teste’s Opening Night Adaptation as Non-Binary Critique: The Second Woman Conclusion References 6 Transmedia Transpositions: Beyoncé and Rosalía Transmedia Transpositions Warsan Shire’s Poetry and Beyoncé’s Lemonade Flamenca and Rosalía’s El Mal Querer Conclusions Notes References 7 Race, Refraction, and Retconning in HBO’s Watchmen Racist Superheroics: Confrontation and Refraction Black Superheroics: Retconning as Refraction Autoclasm: A Postscript Notes References Part III Global Shakespeares 8 Playing With Shakespeare in Japan Asobigokoro as Literary Adaptation Playing With Shakespeare in Recent Stage Performances in Japan Playfulness Gone Dark Distancing Darkness Educational Progressives’ Translation From English to English The Indies: The Matrix in Time and Place Playing With Shakespeare in Recent Japanese Novels The Other Romeos and Juliets Queering the Queer Playing With Shakespeare in New Japanese Media Inner Battles: Gender and Desire Shakespeare Out of School Conclusion Notes References 9 Adaptation as Renewal: The Transformative Impact of Hamlet’s Travels in the Global South Edward Said and “Traveling Theory” Bearing Witness to Pain and Repression: Hamlet in Kashmir Confronting Colonialist Predation, Violence, and Corruption: Hamlet in Nigeria Consumption of the Sacred Enemy: Hamlet in Brazil Contemporary Adaptations in the Global South: Invigorating Hamlet’s Quest for Justice Notes References 10 Lines of Control and Global Social Justice: Shakespearean Adaptation, British Colonial and Contemporary India and the Question of Kashmir Introduction: Cultural Vibrations, Mutual Imbrications Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider and Public and Private Space The Wonder Houses, Corporate Space and Broken Homes of Preti Taneja’s We That Are Young Coda: Turnings and Attention References Part 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) Hegemonic Masculinity and Global Hollywood Fidelity, Adaptation, and Masculinity Ang Lee’s Rebel Trilogy The Heteronormative Temporality of Racial Melodrama in Ride With the Devil (1999) The Unadaptable Hulk: Infidelity to the Father in Hulk Boys Do Cry: Masculine Intimacy in Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Conclusion Notes References 12 Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues and Seder-Masochism: Reading Adaptation as Feminist Critique Paley, Patriarchy, and Concern for “The Commons” Feminist Literary Adaptation and Free-Culture Activism Contemporary Global Literary Adaptation and the “Gift Economy”: Possible Convergences Contemporary Literary Adaptation, the “Gift Economy”, and Politics Notes References 13 Borderlands Adaptation: Staging and Omitting the Memories of Anti-Indigenous Violence in Bless Me, Última (2013) and Arrival (2016) Literal and Figurative Borderlands for Adaptation US/Mexico Borderland Adaptation Alien Contact as Borderland Adaptation Re-imagining La Frontera as Borderland Adaptation Notes References 14 From America to Italy and France: Queering the Many Lives of The Screaming Mimi Adaptation, Interpretations, Different Horrors Queering the Screaming Mimi Conclusions References Part V The Global and the National 15 International Prize Culture and Transnational Adaptation Notes References 16 Fetishizing Localism and Adapting Yangsze Choo’s The Ghost Bride: From Oral Storytelling to Netflix Production Introduction Fetishizing Localism as Literary Adaptation Fetishizing Localism and the Postmodern Fashion Twist Conclusion Notes References 17 Colliding Asias: Crazy Rich Asians as Novel, Film, Adaptation, and Singapore Colliding Asias in Mixed Reviews Fidelity and Performance Different Asians Different Crazy Performances Sincapore Notes References 18 Reconfiguring China: Adaptation, Cultural Prestige, and Soft Power Adaptation and Socialist Propaganda: A Pre-History Screening Soft Power: Cultural Prestige and Film Adaptation From Red Sorghum to Coming Home: Reconfiguring China Conclusion Notes References 19 Adaptation in the New Turkish Cinema Turkish Adaptation: A Brief History Transnational Tendencies Zeki Demirkubuz Conclusion: Exporting Adaptation Acknowledgment Notes References 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 The Twenty-Five Tales of the Vetala The First Phase: Oral Retellings and Manuscripts in South and Central Asia The South Asian Circuit The Central Asian Circuit The Second Phase: Printed Texts in South Asia, Europe, and Beyond Khan and Lallu Lal’s Buetal Pucheesee Richard F. Burton’s Vikram and the Vampire Critical Editions The Third Phase: New Media, New Genres and the Vetala in a Globalized Setting Stepping Out of the Story – the Vetala as “Intertext” The Vetala as Vampire Quasi-Orality Conclusion Notes References 21 Adaptation at the Time of Climate Crises: Educating the Audience Through Mythical Narratives From the Sundarban The Relevance of Mythical Narratives for Addressing the Anthropocene Situating the Bonbibi Narrative in The Hungry Tide Anthropogenic Climate Change and the Relevance of Mythical Narratives in Daughter of the Forest References 22 Possessed Ecologies: Cross-Cultural Ghosts and Transnational Environments in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Snow in Midsummer From Chinese Classic to Global China Happiness, Justice, and a Missing Heart Conclusion: Learning to Live With Ghosts Notes References 23 De-Colonizing Cloudcuckooland: Re-Righting/Re-Writing the Blasted Dreamscape of Manifest Destiny in Yvette Nolan’s The Birds Three Models of Democratic Governance De-Colonizing Cloudcuckooland De-colonizing Stories Conclusion Notes References Part VII Spinoffs 24 Cultural Criticism and the Graphic Essay: Innervation, Immersion, and Analysis Introduction Index