[ecrea] CfP: Routledge Companion to Adaptation

We are soliciting contributions for the new Routledge Companion to 
Adaptation. The book is under contract, and publication is expected in 
late 2016 or early 2017.

As a Routledge Companion, this book will offer a wide-ranging overview 
or perspective on current critical approaches and discourses as well as 
develop new perspectives as and when appropriate. It will still include 
source-oriented studies, such as novel-to-stage, 
film-musical-to-stage-musical etc., but it will go beyond the confines 
of such parameters by structuring itself around adaptive attitudes, 
processes and histories. Thus, instead of focusing entirely on the 
rather limiting and limited singular case-study approach so common in 
Adaptation Studies to date, its emphasis will be on the “big questions” 
of adaptation, the history of adaptation, and on adaptation as scholarly 
practice.


We are looking for contributions under the following headings:


Historiography

This section will broadly fall into two sections: the history of 
adaptation, and adaptation as historiography. Proposals which deal with 
one of the following are particularly welcome:

· Adaptation in a pre- and post- copy-right context (for example, an 
analysis of stage adaptations pre-1886-Berne Convention)

· Adaptation and changing notions of the author and authorship

· Adaptation and the concept of the original

· Adaptation and the archive

· Marginalisations of adaptation histories

· Critical history of attitudes toward adaptation as a creative form

· Massive texts and/as adaptation

· Defining adaptation as a function of History


Geography

This section will address adaptation in terms of global politics and 
power relations. Proposals which fall under the following headings, and 
include an assessment of non-western practices, are particularly 
welcome, as are investigations of the relationship between first, second 
and third world flows of adaptation:

· Mapping of adaptation activities in terms of political hegemonies

· Mapping of adaptation activities in terms of ideological hegemonies

· Mapping of adaptation activities in terms of cultural hegemonies

· Adaptation of / in space and place

· Adaptation and notions of diaspora

· Cultural adaptations and adapting culture

· Defining adaptation as a function of place



Identity

Adaptation changes identities, but may also be described as a function 
of Identity-building. Adaptations are shaped by individual, often 
idiosyncratic choices, but are also crucially determined by contexts of 
identity politics and cultural ideologies (and in turn intervene in 
these fields). This section invites contributions that address the 
interplay of adaptation and identity on a variety of classic 
sociocultural levels (nation, ethnicity, class, gender, age). 
Furthermore, this section will question the binary established between 
source and adaptation and instead, investigate text as a site of 
multiple identities:

· Adaptation, nation and heritage

· Adaptation and ethnicity

· Adaptation and class

· Adaptation and acculturation

· Gendered adaptation

· Idiosyncrasy and adaptation (originality)

· Age and adaptation (identity formation, youth, young adult markets, 
other age groups)



Technology

Adaptation must be, necessarily, intertwined with and embedded in uses 
and displays of technology. This section aims to investigate the 
relationship between adaptation and technology not only with regards to 
specific adaptions but also whether and to what extent the nature of 
technology available shapes the process, the product, and the reception 
of adaptation.

· Defining adaptation as a function of technology

· Adaptation in temporal (i.e. novel, drama, moving image) and spatial 
arts (i.e. photography, painting, installation)

· Stage technologies and adaptation (puppets, opera, laterna magica, 
shadow play etc.)

· Adaptation, intermediality and media specificity (adaptation as 
transcoding)

· Intramedial adaptation ( screenwriting, illustrated books, 
poetry-into-novel, drama-into-poetry, pastiche, simplified versions, 
bowldlerisation, censorship))

· Adaptation and transmediality (social media, franchises, crossing 
media borders, ekphrasis, filmed theatre, ‘theatred’ film)

· Adaptation and serialization (serialized novels, TV)

· The sounds of adaptation (radio, audiobooks, music)

Adaptation and new visual cultures (videogames, graphic novels)



Reception

All adaptations are “receptions,” from one perspective, but this section 
of the book will focus specifically on the structuring and 
de-structuring consequences of recognizing that adaptations exist only 
in their reception and recognition.

· Defining adaptation in terms of reception

· Adaptation as ‘enacted reception’

· Familiarity and recognition

· Adaptation and memory

· Adaptation of scholarly or critical contexts

· ‘Phantom’ adaptations

· Fan fiction and film as adaptation


Please, send a 300-500 word abstract to (adaptationcompanion /at/ hotmail.com) 
no later than 17 April 2015.


If your proposal is accepted for inclusion in the Companion, you will be 
notified during May 2015. We expect the chapters to be submitted in 
September 2015 with an aim to publish the Companion by 2016/17. A more 
detailed time-line will be made available to authors once their 
proposals have been accepted.


With best wishes from the editorial team, Dennis Cutchins, Katja Krebs 
and Eckart Voigts




Dr. Katja Krebs
Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies
Department of Theatre
Faculty of Arts
University of Bristol
BS8 1UP

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