Description
Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this research void and brings together case studies by scholars from different parts of the world and diverse fields. They explore how transnational and transcultural processes of translation and adaptation shape notions of the heroic in non-Western and Western cultures alike. The book provides fresh perspectives on heroism studies and offers a new angle for global and postcolonial studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Studying Heroism from a Global Perspective
Barbara Korte and Simon Wendt
1. "Like a Cinema When the Last of the Audience Has Gone and Only the Staff Remain": Biggles and (Post-)Imperial Heroism
Michael Goodrum
2. Y’a Bon?: Popularizing the Tirailleurs as Heroes of (Anti-)Colonialism
Konstanze N’Guessan and Mareike Späth
3. Princess of a Different Kingdom: Cultural Imperialism, Female Heroism, and the Global Performance of Walt Disney’s Mulan and Moana
Sotirios Mouzakis
4. One Hero Fits All?: Cultural Translations in Doctor Strange (2016) as "Global Hero" Movie
Nicole Falkenhayner and Maria-Xenia Hardt
5. Zashchitniki (Guardians): A Failed Russian-Soviet Answer to Superman and Batman
Dietmar Neutatz
6. "This Beast in the Shape of a Man": Right-Wing Populism, White Masculinity, and the Transnational Heroization of Donald Trump
Michael Butter
7. Axe and Helmet: The Widening Range of New York Firefighters as (Super-)Heroes
Wolfgang Hochbruck
8. Unlikely Tragic (Anti-)Heroes: Gangsters Translated into Hindi Films
Sugata Nandi
9. Heroism and the Pleasure and Pain of Mistranslation: The Case of The Act of Killing
Ariel Heryanto
10. Shaolin Martial Arts Heroes in Industrial Hong Kong: Between Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Globalism
Ricardo K. S. Mak
11. Interhuman. Interspecies. Global: Heroism in Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs (2018)
Ulrike Zimmermann
12. Global Heroism as a Discursive Tradition: A Critical Response
Ken Chitwood
