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Pascal Nicklas, Berlin; Oliver Lindner, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation 9
Adaptation in Theory 22
Familiarity versus Contempt: Becoming Jane and the Adaptation Genre 33
Pride and Promiscuity and Zombies, or: Miss Austen Mashed Up in the Affinity Spaces of Participatory Culture 42
Where Did Your Adaptation Begin?: Book Fairs, Screen Festivals and Writers’ Weeks as Engine-rooms of Adaptation 65
Conversing with Ghosts: Or, the Ethics of Adaptation 78
Cultural Heritage / Heritage Culture: Adapting the Contemporary British Historical Novel 97
Revisiting Shakespeare: Elizabeth Rex as Filmic Metatext 109
“An Entirely Different and New Story”: A Case Study of Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes (2001) 125
Grisly Skeletons and Happy Endings: The Adaptations and Appropriations of Joseph Conrad’s Fiction 140
The Adaptation of Adaptation: A Dialogue between the Arts and Sciences 153
Fidelity, Simultaneity and the ‘Remaking’ of Adaptation Studies 170
Brontë meets Bollywood: The Ambivalences of Appropriation and Adaptation in Tamasha’s Wuthering Heights 194
Odysseus, Crusoe and the Making of the Caribbean Hero. Derek Walcott’s Variations of Great Traditions 211
Appropriating Achebe: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and “The Headstrong Historian” 238
Revisiting Bolton: Transcultural Adaptation and Regional Identity in Ayub Khan-Din’s Rafta, Rafta 259
List of Contributors 272
Index 277