Adaptation and beyond : hybrid transtextualities / edited by Eva C. Karpinski and Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak.

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

©2024

xxv, 199 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

"This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms of the transmedia concept of "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and multidirectionality of contemporary scattered and ubiquitous practices of adaptation. The Editors argue that the process of moving stories or their elements across different media platforms and repurposing them for new uses results in the production of hybrid transtextualities. The book demonstrate how hybrid textualities augment narrative and literary forms as goals of their world-building, finding unexpected sites of cross-pollination, expansion, and appropriation in spoken-word and dance performance, (auto)biographical comics, advertising, Chinese Kun opera, and popular song lyrics. This yoking of hybridity and transmediality yields not only diversified and often commercialized aesthetic forms but also enables the emergence a unique cultural space in-between, a mezzaterra capable of addressing current political issues and mobilizing broader audiences"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Adaptation and beyond New York, NY : Routledge, 2024

English

March 18, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.