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

Brandon Chua, Elizabeth Ho

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000832112
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century
• 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
• Index