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

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century </em>offers new perspectives on contemporary literary adaptation as a dynamically global field. </p><p>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.</p><p>This<em> Companion</em> 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.</p>