Mendes, Ana Cristina2023-04-132023-04-132023Mendes, AC. 2023. “Adaptation and epistemic redress: the 1857 indian uprising in Junoon”. In ReFocus: The Films of Shyam Benegal. Eds. Sneha Kar Chaudhuri e Ramit Samaddar. ReFocus: The International Directors Series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 83–99.9781474452861http://hdl.handle.net/10451/57099Our interest – curiosity, even – in the Victorian Age has resulted in a continued investment in ventriloquising the Victorians themselves, as in the case of the various adaptations of Victorian novels and afterlives of Victorian literature in contemporary settings, as well as through neo-Victorian renditions. Towards an epistemic reading of adaptation, this chapter discusses the Hindi film Junoon (1979), directed by Shyam Benegal and produced by Shashi Kapoor, a screen adaptation of the neo-Victorian novella A Flight of Pigeons (1978) by Anglo-Indian author Ruskin Bond, set during the 1857 Indian uprising against British rule, as a creative exercise of epistemic redress whose locus of enunciation and adaptation is a former colony of the British empire.engPostcolonial studiesCinema studiesShyam BenegalVictorian studiesIndiaIndian cinemaNeo-VictorianismAdaptation studiesbook part