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Archive

Challenges in Adaptation: Interplay of Tradition and Innovation

February 2026

Keynote Address, Dependence, Liberation, and Creativity: Reclaiming the Power of Adaptation

Iffat Maqbool

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.306.a8n3

Isaac Sequeira Memorial Lecture, Adaptation and Translation: Reversing a Hierarchy

Harish Trivedi

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.307.a8n3

Across Rivers and Roots: Ethical and Ecological Worlds in the Writings of Nguyễn Ngọc Tư and Contemporary Indian Women Authors

Trần Thị Vân Dung and Nayan Deep S. Kanwal

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.308.a8n3

Hybridity, Carnivalism, and Commercialization: Trans- Cultural Adaptation of Traditional Myths in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

Yuhe Chen

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.309.a8n3

Haiku After Adaptation: On the Fate of An Oriental Genre in the Western World

Adela Kuik-Kalinowska

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.310.a8n3

From Pages of Literature to the Frames of Comics: Examples of Edgar Allan Poe and George Orwell

Daniel Kalinowski

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.312.a8n3

The Mutuality of Adaptation in/of Percival Everett’s Works

Sanjay Mukherjee

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.313.a8n3

Adaptation as Transformative Reimagining: Analysing Shiv Kumar Batalvi’s Luna

Harjinder Kaur

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.314.a8n3

From Folktale to Franchise: Rapunzel in the Age of Adaptation

Shefali

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.315.a8n3

Between the Ancient and the Animated: Visual and Narrative Adaptation of Select Epic Characters of The Mahabharata in Grant Morrison’s 18 Days

Pratishtha Thakur

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.316.a8n3

“To Win is to Lose Everything and the Game Always Wins”: The Politics of Fidelity in Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games and its Screen Adaptation

Bashabi Gogoi

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.317.a8n3

Re-inventing of Sita’s Character through the Analyses of Devdutt Pattanaik’s Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramyana

Vinod K. Chopra

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.318.a8n3

Understanding Satyajit Ray’s Filmic Approach to Ibsen: A Comparative Study of Ganashatru and An Enemy of the People

Sharif Atiquzzaman

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.319.a8n3

Politics of Adaptation and Consumerist Subversion in the Filmic Representation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Richa

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.320.a8n3

Requiem for a Nightmare: A Comparison of Daron Aronofsky’s Film with Hubert Selby Jr.’s Novel

Manthan Dhiman

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.321.a8n3

Against Forgetting: Haider, Hamlet and the Politics of Remembrance

Towfeeq Farooq and Khursheed Ahmad Qazi

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.322.a8n3

Divine Spectacle: The Cinematic Rebirth of Indian Epics

Monika Supahiya

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.323.a8n3

Exploring the Nuances of Neo-Noir: A Study of Graham Moore’s The Outfit

Poorva Gulati and Shivani Larojya

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.324.a8n3

Epic Voices, Feminist Fires: Reimagining Sita and Draupadi Across Genres

Ayushi Khera

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.325.a8n3

Tracing the Transition of Vikram Seth’s, A Suitable Boy from Text to OTT

Mandeep Kaur

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.326.a8n3

Adaptation as an Act of Political Cloning and Alteration of Narratives: An Analysis of The Hate U Give

Shreya Bhatia

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.327.a8n3

Palimpsests of Green Gables: Intertextuality, Identity, and Ideology in Anne with an E

Sunaina Jain

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.328.a8n3

Othello to Omkara: Caste, Social and Political Hierarchy in Vishal Bhardwaj's Adaptation of Shakespeare

Puja Majhi

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.329.a8n3

The Sacred and Its Adaptation: Negotiating Folklore and Scriptural Authority

Asmita Sharma

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.331.a8n3

Mannequins on the Stage: Contemporary Theatrical Adaptations as a Socio-Cultural Discourse on Gender Fluidity

Angadbir Singh Kakkar

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.332.a8n3

Feminist and Political Erasure: The House of the Spirits Novel vs. Film

Aastha Choudhary

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.333.a8n3

Plurilingualism and the Problem of Translation/Adaptation: A Study of Select Sufi/Bhakti Poems in Bangla/Hindi Translation

Azhar Uddin Sahaji

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.334.a8n3

Visual Hermeneutics as Adaptation: Translating Sufi Mysticism Through The Aesthetics of Presence

Badrunissa Bhat

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.335.a8n3

Tracing the Echoes of Partition through Brushstrokes, Panels and Cinematic Lenses

Kusum Bhatia

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.336.a8n3

Adding Nuances of Postcolonial Arguments to Shakespeare – A Study of Selected Novels under Hogarth Shakespeare Series

Bhakti Vaishnav

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.337.a8n3

Poetry as ‘Passage’: Symbolic Adaptation and Cultural Memory in the Poetry of Meena Alexander

Smita Ajgaonkar Nayak

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.338.a8n3

Journey of The Blue Umbrella from Text to Screen: Signposts Missed, Milestones Achieved

Navdeep Kahol

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.339.a8n3