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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 12
The limits of Orientalism

Relocating Identity in two Arabian Nights

Article outline
  • The Arabian Nights, tentpole Orientalism, and fragmented fidelity
  • Hollywood, imperial centres, and independence in Arabian Nights (1942)
  • Sex, fidelity, and Pasolini’s “Prehistoric” Arabian Nights (1974)
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 16 October 2018
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