ADAPTATION OF SAADAT HASAN’S WORK IN MANTO: A POSTMODERN CRITIQUE

Abstract

In the contemporary creative industry, adaptation plays a crucial part. Presently, there is a great ongoing discussion in academia regarding the appropriate framework for adaptation studies due to its multidisciplinary nature. The present study aims at analyzing the process of film adaptation with help of hermeneutic framework that enable to monitor both textual and contextual parameters of the adaptation process. The study builds affinities between adaptation translation and culture studies that junctures the theoretical aspects and offers methodological and analytical tool for the study of film adaptation. The model also provides a systematic analysis for the changes occurs in the process of adaptation (i.e. adaptation shifts) and interprets its socio-cultural bearings particularly by postmodernism. The study employed Mixed Methods Sequential Explanatory Design to analyze and interpret the adaptation shifts in film Manto. The results of the study look to be the nexus of forces that influence the adaptation process as a creative practice in the broader socio-cultural system. Findings verified the interplay of adapter’s re-interpretative, re-creative touch and social circumstances of particular era. The present study shed light on several inter-relations of adaptation shifts and culture bearings through lens of postmodernism. Therefore, the model used in the study by bringing adaptation, translation and culture studies develops an effective interdisciplinary framework.