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Pockets of Change
Adaptation and Cultural Transition
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2011
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The twelve essays collected in Pockets of Change locate adaptation within a framework of two overlapping, if not simultaneous, creative processes: on the one hand, adaptation is to be understood as an acknowledged transposition of an existing source-that is, the process of adapting from; on the other hand, adaption is also a process of purposeful shifting and evolving of creative practices in response to external factors, including but not limited to other creative works-in other words, the process of adapting to. This book explores adaptation, then, as an active practice of repetition and as a reactive process of development or evolution. The essays also extend beyond the production, transformation, and interpretation of texts to interrogate the values and practices at work in cultural transition and transformation during periods of social and historical change. Collectively, the papers theorize adaptation by taking on three tasks: first, to examine the conditions under which the two processes of adaptation operate; second, to give an account of the space and moment in which the processes unfold (the 'pockets' of the title); and finally, to examine what emerges from pockets of adaptation. While adapting from and adapting to are both processes that appear to preclude innovation in the way that they acknowledge and depend on external sources, Pockets of Change demonstrates that adaptation is productive. It not only references prior texts, attitudes, practices and media, but it also invites us to re-visit the past and to re-think the present in new ways, potentially giving narrative space to muted or occluded voices. This book therefore brings together an innovative and varied range of approaches to, interpretations and uses of adaptation, challenging the assumption that an adaptation is simply either a 're-make' or the act of turning one medium into another. Adaptation, then, names not only the means by which texts are transformed, but also the space in which that transformation takes place. This anthology highlights the processes of adaptation and transition rather than simply focusing on the relationship between beginning and end products. In identifying these pockets of change this anthology both claims and opens up new spaces in this critical field and mode of textual analysis.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6533-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6535-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
180
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments and Permissions No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
Ch01. Haunted Space No access Pages 1 - 14
Ch02. Adapting Verbatim Theater No access Pages 15 - 28
Ch03. Cross-Cultural Adaptation and the Transition toward Reconciliation in Australian Film and Literature No access Pages 29 - 42
Ch04. “Enraptured with every scent and flavour of the East”? No access Pages 43 - 56
Ch05. Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-First Century Indian English Poetry No access Pages 57 - 70
Ch06. Young Writer, “Young Country” No access Pages 71 - 80
Ch07. Imagined Villages and Knowable Communities No access Pages 81 - 94
Ch08. Authentic Traditions on Show? No access Pages 95 - 108
Ch09. A Pocket of Change in Post-War Australia No access Pages 109 - 122
Ch10. “Delighted Stares” No access Pages 123 - 132
Ch11. “Human Cylinders” No access Pages 133 - 144
Ch12. Between the Painting and the Novel No access Pages 145 - 158
Works Cited No access Pages 159 - 172
Index No access Pages 173 - 176
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 177 - 180
