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.

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 (Bucknell UP, 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 (Bloomsbury, 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.