Two Narratives, Multiple Spaces: the Literature of Ismail Kadare and the Cinema of Walter Salles

Cunha, M. 2006. Two Narratives, Multiple Spaces: the Literature of Ismail Kadare and the Cinema of Walter Salles. Polifonia. 11, pp. 109-132.

TitleTwo Narratives, Multiple Spaces: the Literature of Ismail Kadare and the Cinema of Walter Salles
TypeJournal article
AuthorsCunha, M.
Abstract

This essay – part of the Cultural and Critical Studies
field – aims at thinking the film adaptation process in a crosscultural and spatial perspective. It analyses the film Behind the Sun, directed by Walter Salles, and the Albanian novel in which it was inspired, Broken April, written by Ismail Kadare, in the light of theoreticians such as Zygmunt Bauman and Mikail Bakhtin, who thought the concepts of territory and space in the different fictional genres. Beyond the adaptation process, this paper observes the dichotomies between the local and the global, the centre and the periphery, the coast and the countryside, the unique and the universal – notions that lose their static definitions and start to mix up in the contemporary social and artistic context of Brazil.

JournalPolifonia
Journal citation11, pp. 109-132
ISSN2237-6844
0104-687X
Year2006
PublisherAustin Peay State University, Department of Language and Literature
Web address (URL)http://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/polifonia/article/view/1094/863
Publication dates
Published2005

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