Chapter 3
“Can we be compassionately blended?”
Orientalized retellings of Beauty and the Beast and Bluebeard
Article outline
- 3.1Constructing Orient and Occident
- 3.2Orientalization as a script and as a space
- 3.3The forbidden chamber and the Beast’s palace
- 3.4The orientalization of Beauty and the Beast and Bluebeard: An English tradition
- 3.5“Bluebeard” I: Constructing the orientalized space through words and pictures
- 3.6“Bluebeard” II: Blending orientalized illustrations with a Western narrative
- 3.7“Bluebeard” III: The forbidden chamber and the destruction of the monstrous oriental
- 3.8“Beauty and the Beast” I: Orientalized illustrations
- 3.9“Beauty and the Beast” II: Beauty’s father, the Beast, and the Beast’s palace
- 3.10“Beauty and the Beast” III: Beauty claims the orientalized space
- 3.11Beast: A glocal perspective
- 3.12Beast: Reconceptualizing the orientalized space into the glocal space
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Acknowledgements
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Notes