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Tales of Twisters and Blurring Boundaries: Borders in/of Adaptation

Wells-lassagne Shannon

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[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureGeneral Engineering[SHS.ART] Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history

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“The journey creates us. We become the frontiers we cross.”Salman Rushdie, “Step Across This Line”, p. 351 Taking its cue from Kate Newell’s analysis of the film as “culture-text” (Newell 2017), the cover illustration of this special issue of Interfaces devoted to “Borders in/of Adaptation” focuses on an iconic image from The Wizard of Oz (1939), as our intrepid outsiders journey through treacherous poppy fields before arriving at the Emerald City to see its all-powerful wizard, the ostensibl...

https://doi.org/10.4000/interfaces.5189