Adaptation and Beyond

<p>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. </p><p>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 demonstrates 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 <i>mezzaterra </i>capable of addressing current political issues and mobilizing broader audiences</p>