Tanika Gupta’s engagement with the works of contemporary bicultural writers invigorates her longstanding project of “staging the intercultural” (Gupta and Sierz 38). This essay discusses the ways in which the author juxtaposes her voice with that of Meera Syal who, since the 1980 s, has helped to shape the burgeoning field of British Asian women’s writing, while also establishing a distinct British Asian presence in the media. Similar to Gupta’s own writing, Syal has addressed cultural hybridity in her work and exposed the faultlines within British society, thus bringing into the open a racialized sense of the nation that is embedded in the entanglement of its colonial and postcolonial history. This article discusses Gupta’s appropriation of Anita and Me (2015) as a significant contribution to consolidating an Asian British women’s writing tradition that through transmedial and intertextual strategies favours legacy and canon formation. By dramatizing Syal’s coming-of-age novel Anita and Me, originally published in 1996, Gupta expands this work beyond both its original narrative form and its context of publication. She infuses it with an afterlife that sheds new light on the novel, while strengthening its relevance for contemporary cross-cultural audiences.

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改编英国亚裔女性故事：塔尼卡·古普塔的《安妮塔与我》

塔尼卡·古普塔 (Tanika Gupta) 对当代双文化作家作品的参与激发了她长期开展的“展示跨文化”项目 (Gupta and Sierz 38)。这篇文章讨论了作者如何将她的声音与 Meera Syal 的声音并列，Meera Syal 自 1980 年代以来帮助塑造了英国亚洲女性写作的新兴领域，同时也在媒体中建立了独特的英国亚洲形象。与 Gupta 自己的作品类似，Syal 在她的作品中解决了文化混合问题，并揭露了英国社会的断层线，从而公开了一种植根于其殖民和后殖民历史纠葛中的种族化民族意识。本文讨论古普塔对安妮塔和我(2015) 作为对巩固亚洲英国女性写作传统的重大贡献，该传统通过跨媒体和互文策略有利于遗产和经典的形成。通过戏剧化 Syal 的成长小说安妮塔和我, 最初于 1996 年出版，Gupta 将这部作品扩展到其原始叙事形式和出版背景之外。她为小说注入了来世，为小说增添了新的亮点，同时加强了它与当代跨文化读者的相关性。