Folklore Adaptation: An Intertextual Analysis of Daskindaridi and Cinderella Folktales

Abstract

This study is a folklore adaptation of two different films from two different film industries. Adaptation can be seen as a movement of literary and cultural texts from one genre to another or from one medium to another. Being a relatively new area of study, there are few studies that examine the issue of adaptation with regard to folklore in the Kannywood home video and even in the Nollywood home video. The paper, therefore, is carried out to provide a comparative analysis of two folklore films which are Daskindaridi, a Kannywood film and Cinderella, a Hollywood film. The study, thus examines the differences and similarities in textual interpretations between the two folklore films, and interrogates whether there exists an intertextual relationship between them. Textual analysis is adopted as a method to generate and analyse data from the two films under review, while Adaptation Theory serves as the theoretical foundation upon which arguments in the study are hinged. The study establishes intertextual relationships between the two films, although it is not clear which film adapts from the other. It thus recommends that similar studies be carried out to compare other Wester folktales with other Nigerian folktales in other to establish intetextual relationships that exist between folktales of varied sociocultural backgrounds.