In:Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
► pp. 211–228
Chapter 12The limits of Orientalism
Relocating Identity in two Arabian Nights
Published online: 16 October 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.9.13rad
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.9.13rad
Article outline
- The Arabian Nights, tentpole Orientalism, and fragmented fidelity
- Hollywood, imperial centres, and independence in ArabianNights (1942)
- Sex, fidelity, and Pasolini’s “Prehistoric” Arabian Nights (1974)
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