Appropriating Achebe: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and “The Headstrong Historian”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation 1
5. Adaptation in Theory 14
6. Familiarity versus Contempt: Becoming Jane and the Adaptation Genre 25
7. Pride and Promiscuity and Zombies, or: Miss Austen Mashed Up in the Affinity Spaces of Participatory Culture 34
8. Where Did Your Adaptation Begin?: Book Fairs, Screen Festivals and Writers’ Weeks as Engine-rooms of Adaptation 57
9. Conversing with Ghosts: Or, the Ethics of Adaptation 70
10. Cultural Heritage / Heritage Culture: Adapting the Contemporary British Historical Novel 89
11. Revisiting Shakespeare: Elizabeth Rex as Filmic Metatext 101
12. “An Entirely Different and New Story”: A Case Study of Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes (2001) 117
13. Grisly Skeletons and Happy Endings: The Adaptations and Appropriations of Joseph Conrad’s Fiction 132
14. The Adaptation of Adaptation: A Dialogue between the Arts and Sciences 145
15. Fidelity, Simultaneity and the ‘Remaking’ of Adaptation Studies 162
16. Brontë Meets Bollywood: The Ambivalences of Appropriation and Adaptation in Tamasha’s Wuthering Heights 186
17. Odysseus, Crusoe and the Making of the Caribbean Hero. Derek Walcott’s Variations of Great Traditions 203
18. Appropriating Achebe: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and “The Headstrong Historian” 230
19. Revisiting Bolton: Transcultural Adaptation and Regional Identity in Ayub Khan-Din’s Rafta, Rafta 251
20. List of Contributors 264
21. Index 269