Beschreibung:
Eva C. Karpinski is Associate Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada, where she teaches feminist theory, life writing, and translation studies. She has published over 40 articles and book chapters. She is the author of Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation and co-author of Life Writing Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas and, most recently, Translation, Semiotics, and Feminism: Selected Writings of Barbara Godard (Routledge 2022). She is Associate Editor of the journal a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
This collection focuses on recent adaptations that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and multidirectionality of contemporary scattered practices of adaptation leading to the production of hybrid transtextualities
Introduction: Hybrid Zones of Transtextual World-Building: Towards the Mezzaterra of Adaptation