The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations Across Disciplines and Cultures

231 Pages·2013·1.35 MB·English

by  Laurence Raw

The Silk Road of Adaptation

The Silk Road of Adaptation:
Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures

Edited by

Laurence Raw
The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures

Edited by Laurence Raw

This book first published 2013

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ................................................................................... viii
Chapter One ................................................................................................ 1
Introduction: Traveling the Silk Road of Adaptation
Laurence Raw
Chapter Two ............................................................................................. 14
Where are We and are We There Yet?
Imelda Whelehan
Chapter Three ........................................................................................... 26
Cross-Cultural Adaptation by Medieval Travelers along the Silk Road:
Concepts of Understanding
Victoria Bledsloe
Chapter Four ............................................................................................. 35
Adaptation or Appropriation: Resistance to Constitutional Monarchy
in the National Anthems of the Ottoman Empire
Sinan Akilli
Chapter Five ............................................................................................. 49
The Adaptation of the Self: Byron’s Oriental Self-Fashioning
Himmet Umunç
Chapter Six ............................................................................................... 57
Adapting the East into Western Paradigms:
Robert Irwin’s Arabian Nightmare
Defne Ersin Tutan
Chapter Seven ........................................................................................... 64
Adaptation or Something Like It: Karel Reisz’s The Gambler (1974)
Joyce Goggin
Chapter Eight ............................................................................................ 78
The Eastwood Agenda in the Adaptation
of White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)
Charles Hamilton
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Chapter Nine ............................................................................................. 88
Time, Space, and Culture in Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick
Selga Goldmane
Chapter Ten .............................................................................................. 98
The Hours (2002): An Unfaithful Adaptation
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Chapter Eleven ....................................................................................... 103
Adaptation or Assimilation:
Orientation Issues in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
Faruk Kalay and (cid:37)(cid:129)(cid:79)(cid:72)(cid:81)(cid:87)(cid:3)(cid:55)(cid:68)(cid:81)(cid:85)(cid:213)(cid:87)(cid:68)(cid:81)(cid:213)(cid:85)
Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 110
Three Hamlets, Two Gentlemen and One Time to Love:
Shakespeare on the Chinese Screen
Hui Wu
Chapter Thirteen ..................................................................................... 122
Or Image of that Horror:
The Apocalyptic Visions of Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa
Peter E. S. Babiak
Chapter Fourteen .................................................................................... 132
Brazilian Translations and Adaptations of Charles and Mary Lamb’s
Tales from Shakespeare (1807)
Marilise R. Bertin
Chapter Fifteen ....................................................................................... 140
Translation Challenges and their Implications in Advertising Adaptation
and Multicultural Marketing
Hugo Vandal-Sirois
Chapter Sixteen ...................................................................................... 152
Advertising: The Intercultural Dialogue’s Possibilities
Tânia Hoff and João Anzanello Carrascoza
Chapter Seventeen .................................................................................. 160
Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle East:
An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish
Heather Schell
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Chapter Eighteen .................................................................................... 172
The Balkanization of English Language and Literature:
Challenges and Experiences of Cross-Cultural Academic Adaptation
Mustafa Bal
Chapter Nineteen .................................................................................... 180
Adapting Drama in the Turkish Foreign Language Classroom
Seçil Horasan
Chapter Twenty ....................................................................................... 189
Cultural Issues in Language Teaching
Charlotte McPherson
Chapter Twenty-One ............................................................................... 201
The Devil’s in the Detail:
The Hidden Horror of F. W. Murnau’s Faust (1926)
Liz Jones
List of Contributors ................................................................................ 213
Index ....................................................................................................... 218
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The entire conference could not have taken place without the input of
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offered her usual input and enthusiasm to ensure the success of the event.
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all the manifold duties involved in organizing the event, including
transport, accommodation, room organization and travel. We could not
have had such a success without her. I’d like to thank the Association of
Adaptation Studies for giving us the chance to organize the event in the
first place, notably Jeremy Strong. Deborah Cartmell and Imelda
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role of Turkish cinema in the modern age. Tim Corrigan and Marcia
Ferguson offered moral support as well as asking just the right questions at
the right time. Tony Gurr offered valuable perspectives on teaching
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Mavor of Edinburgh Napier University offered a valuable workshop on
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poetry-reading as a last-minute substitute. I’d also like to thank Carol
Koulikourdi, Amanda Millar and Emily Surrey of Cambridge Scholars
Publishing for their continual support of this project.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION:
TRAVELING THE SILK ROAD OF ADAPTATION
LAURENCE RAW
The Silk Road is an historical network of interlinking trade routes that
connected South Asia with Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as parts
of East Asia. Routes extended through Syria, the Republic of Turkey, Iran,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and China. Trade on the Silk Road
was a significant factor in the development of China, the Indian
subcontintent, Iran/Persia and Europe. Though silk was the principal
commodity, many other goods were exchanged, while various
technologies, religions and philosophies also traveled along the routes.
One example was the encounter between Chinese and Xiongnu nomads.
The Xiongnu adopted Chinese agricultural methods, clothing and lifestyle,
while the Chinese converted to the Xiongnu way of life as a means of
avoiding punishment from their superiors.
Such cross-cultural exchanges invariably involved adaptation – of
styles, clothing, and modes of behavior – which helps to explain why the
metaphor of “the Silk Road” continues to exert considerable sway in
different cultures. Former American Secretary of State Hillary Roddam
Clinton embraced a vision of “the new Silk Road” in the Near and Far
East, based on the ideas of cooperation and collaboration in the areas of
trade, research and intellectual development. Her Deputy Assistant
Secretary Geoffrey Pyatt remarked in a speech given on 9 July 2012 that
the strategy would help reconnect countries “that had been torn apart by
decades of war and rivalry” – for example the United States, India, Japan
and Afghanistan. Cooperation could be achieved through increased trade
flow and dialogue between opinion-formers at all levels, whether
industrial, diplomatic, or educational. This was no easy task: “years of
ambivalence about the merits of cooperation, and even geography will
need to be overcome.” The term “geography” is problematic: Pyatt
understood that it was often used as an excuse to prevent rather than