Special Issue of Adaptation journal, Bioadaptations, has just been published

A special issue of the Adaptation journal focusing on Bioadaptations has just been published.

Edited by Deborah Cartmell and Erin Sullivan, the special issue includes articles on topics such as (auto)biography as adaptation, posthuman feminism, and technobiographical adaptation.

As the special issue’s introduction explains, bioadaptations, or adaptation of real lives, pretend fidelity but fail, often purposely, to deliver it. Like the competitors in the BBC’s psychological adventure competition, The Traitors (2022-), these productions are the more watchable and complex for maintaining and/or losing the illusion of fidelity. Disloyalty is a cause for both praise and, more frequently, blame, in adaptations of real people’s lives, whether it be in biofictions, bioplays, biopics, or any other media recreation yet to be named, of a real life. These productions frequently incite outrage from their audiences for misrepresenting a life held sacred. Whatever form it takes, a bioadaptation, first and foremost, is a traitor.

Read the special issue here