#great resource

Disclaimer: 

I used my dissertation’s bibliography to create this post

if a text is unavailable I might have a saved version and/or my notes 

your safest bet for (free) academic resources is Google Scholar 

bolded: my favourite essays 

I’m always open for discussion! 

General reading:

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. The empire writes back: Theory and practice in post-colonial literatures.

Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” 

Edward Said, Orientalism. 

Faery, Rebecca Blevins. Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex in the Shaping of an American Nation. 

Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth.  

McClintock, Anne. Imperial leather: Race, gender, and sexuality in the colonial contest.

Shohat, Ella. "Gender and culture of empire: Toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema."

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Can the subaltern speak?." Can the subaltern speak? Reflections on the history of an idea.

The Origin of the phrase "Women of Color" (Loretta Ross)

Young, Robert. Postcolonialism: An historical introduction. 

Disney:  

Booker, Keith M. Disney, Pixar, and the Hidden Messages of Children's Films.  

Giroux, Henry A. “Memory and Pedagogy in the “Wonderful World of Disney” Beyond the Politics of Innocence.” From mouse to mermaid: The politics of film, gender, and culture. Eds. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells. 

Giroux, Henry A. “Public Pedagogy and Rodent Politics: Cultural Studies and the Challenge of Disney.” 

Hines, Susan and Brenda Ayres. “Introduction: (He)gemony Cricket! Why in the World Are We Still Watching Disney?” The emperor's old groove: decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom. Ed. Brenda Ayres.

Tassja. “The Jasmine Diaries Part III: Beyond “Exotic”.” Web blog post. Irresistible Revolution, October 7 2011.

Lacroix, Celeste. "Images of animated others: The orientalization of Disney's cartoon heroines from The Little Mermaid to The Hunchback of Notre Dame." 

Miller, Susan & Greg Rode. “The Movie You See, The Movies You Don’t How Disney Do’s That Old Time Derision.” From mouse to mermaid: The politics of film, gender, and culture. 

Mitchell-Smith, Ilan. "The United Princesses of America: Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Purity in Disney’s Medieval Past."

Schaffer, S. "Disney and the Imagineering of Histories." 

Zipes, Jack. “Breaking the Disney Spell.” From mouse to mermaid: The politics of film, gender, and culture.

Jasmine-centric: 

Addison, Erin. "Saving Other Women from Other Men: Disneys Aladdin."

Blauvelt, Christian. "Aladdin, Al-Qaeda, and Arabs in US film and TV."

Griffin, Sean. “The Illusion of ‘Identity’: Gender and Racial Representation in Aladdin.”

Heydt, Samantha.“Cinematic Essentialism, Political Agendas Walt Disney’s Aladdin.”

Macleod, Dianne Sachko. “Chapter 13: The Politics of Vision: Disney, Aladdin, and the Gulf War.”The emperor's old groove: decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom. Ed. Brenda Ayres.

Nadel, Alan. “A Whole New (Disney) World Order: Aladdin, Atomic Power, and the Muslim Middle East.” Visions of the East Orientalism in Film.

Shaheen, Simon. “Reel bad arabs - How hollywood vilifies a people.”    

Staninger, Christiane. “Chapter 5: Disney’s Magic Carpet Ride: Aladdin and Women in Islam.” The emperor's old groove: decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom. Ed. Brenda Ayres. 

Wise, Christopher. “Chapter 8: Notes from the Aladdin industry: Or, Middle Eastern Folklore in the Era of multinational Capitalism.” The emperor's old groove: decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom. Ed. Brenda Ayres.

Wojcik-Andrews, I. & Phillips, J. R. "Telling Tales to Children: The Pedagogy of Empire in MGM's Kim and Disney's Aladdin."

Esmeralda-centric (Romani):

Bauman, Janina. "Demons of other people's fear: the plight of the Gypsies." 

Bean, Kellie. “Chapter 4: Stripping Beauty: Disney’s “Feminist” Seduction.” The emperor's old groove: decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom. Ed. Brenda Ayres. (interesting but no intersectionality) 

Colmeiro, José F. “Exorcising Exoticism: ‘Carmen’ and the Construction of Oriental Spain.”

Kóczé, Angéla, and Raluca Maria Popa. "Missing Intersectionality: Race/Ethnicity, Gender and Class in Current Research and Policies on Romani Women in Europe."

Okely, Judith. “Gypsy Women: Models in Conflict.” 

Schneeweis, Adina. "Desired, yet unwanted: Hugo’s gypsy bodies in popular media."

Schneeweis, Adina. "The bohemian Gypsy, another body to sell: Deciphering Esmeralda in popular culture." Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in popular culture.

Hancock, Ian. “The “gypsy” stereotype and the sexualisation of Romani women.”

Oprea, Alexandra. “Romani Feminism in Reactionary Times.”

Pels, Dick, and Aya Crébas. "Carmen—or the invention of a new feminine myth." 

Pocahontas-centric (Native American): 

Buescher, Derek T., and Kent A. Ono. "Civilized colonialism: Pocahontas as neocolonial rhetoric."  

Crazy Horse, Chief Roy. “The Pocahontas Myth.”

Edwards, Leigh H. “The United Colors of ‘Pocahontas’: Synthetic Miscegenation and Disney's Multiculturalism.

Golden, Margaret. "Pocahontas: Comparing the Disney Image with Historical Evidence." 

Green, Rayna. “The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture.”

Jackson, Kathy Merlock and Gary Edgerton. “Pocahontas as a Disney Princess, History, Legend, Literature, and Movie Mythology.” 

Kiyomi, Kutsuzawa. "Disney's Pocahontas: Reproduction of Gender, Orientalism, and the Strategic Construction of Racial Harmony in the Disney Empire."

Ono, Kent A., and Derek T. Buescher. "Deciphering Pocahontas: Unpackaging the commodification of a Native American woman."

Parekh, Pushpa Naida. “Chapter 12: Pocahontas: The Disney Imaginary.” The emperor's old groove: decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom. Ed. Brenda Ayres.

Grrrrr marriage symbolism was gonna be one of the topics covered in our UNFINISHED SanSan mega-meta, it woulda been all the spice you need! ��