LITERATURE AND CINEMA: POSTCOLONIAL ADAPTATIONS

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LITERATURE AND CINEMAPOSTCOLONIAL ADAPTATIONS

• Sandra Ponzanesi
• Utrecht University
• The Netherlands

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Historical Background

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Modernist writers

• Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

• James Joyce
• (1882-1941)

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Theories of Adaptation

• Transposition
• Commentary
• Analogy

• Essentialist
• Structuralist
• Post-structuralist

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Theoretical Perspectives

• Essentialist Approach Specificity of each Medium
  
• Structuralist Approach Equality of the Media
• Post-Structuralist Approach Intermediality

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Postcolonial Adaptations

• adaptation of empire
• adaptation of classics
• adaptation of postcolonial novels
• postcolonial adaptations

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The English Patient
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Characters
The English Patient
Kip
Caravaggio
Hana
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Kip, the Indian Sapper
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Love and Loss - Frame Story
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Bride and PrejudiceGurinder Chadha
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Women Without Men Shirin Neshat
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Shahrnush Parsipur

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