The Return of the Empire: Representations of Race, Ethnicity and Culture in Disney's Tarzan and The Jungle Book, and in the Burroughs and Kipling pre-texts

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  • Helen Thomson

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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2001vol11no3art1323

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race, ethnicity, culture, Disney, Tarzan, The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Rice Burroughs, British Empire, colonialism

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Films referred to:

(Both films discussed produced by The Wait Disney Company)

The Jungle Book (1967) Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman.

Tarzan (1999) Dir. Kevin Lima and Chris Buck.

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2001-12-01

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“The Return of the Empire: Representations of Race, Ethnicity and Culture in Disney’s Tarzan and The Jungle Book, and in the Burroughs and Kipling pre-texts” (2001) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 11(3), pp. 5–14. doi:10.21153/pecl2001vol11no3art1323.

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