Adapting Heathcliff - The Brontë Society Annual Lecture

This talk, delivered by Dr Sam Hirst, will explore a history of Wuthering Heights adaptations from 1920 to the present day. It will chart the move towards a ‘white’ Heathcliff from early adaptations’ insistence on his Romani identity and will chart the history of later adaptations' attempts or failures to grapple with Heathcliff’s racialisation. 

Beyond the broader issue of erasing the racialisation of Heathcliff in the text, this talk will focus on how ignoring Heathcliff’s association with Romani identity relates to a larger problem in popular culture and Brontë studies: the failure, or lack of desire, to grapple with the historical and contemporary depiction and treatment of the Roma.

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