
How Adaptations Awaken the Literary Canon
Transformative Reimaginings
Suzy Woltmann(Author)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published on 11. April 2022
Book
Hardback
140 pages
978-1-5275-8230-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book illuminates the ways that reimagining known narratives can create space for empowerment. From socially conscious adaptations of classic American literature to postmodern mythic remixes, and from queerly fragmented fairy tales to the postcolonial palimpsest, the adaptations addressed in this book fell, retell, and awaken the literary canon. They use the rhetorical tools of collaborative originality, intertextual queering, and perspective plurality to interrogate conventions and problematize norms.Collectively, this book argues for adaptations' intersectional cultural and conceptual impact. Employing a diverse approach that interweaves multiple literary theoretical approaches, it brings attention to the unique power of reframing stories.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5275-8230-9 (9781527582309)
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Person
Dr Suzy Woltmann is a Professor of Writing and Literature. Her classes emphasize the process of (re)reading and (re)writing as transformative. She is the editor of Woke Cinderella: 21st-Century Adaptations, and has published in Preternature, Postcolonial Interventions, Humanities, and South Asian Review, among others.