... the figure of Tiger Lily, the stereotype of the over-sexed aboriginal figure is introduced. Like Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily desires Peter Pan. In an early manuscript, that desire is articulated through a rape fantasy: tiger lily Suppose Tiger Lily runs into the wood - Peter Paleface attack her - what then? peter (bewildered) Paleface can never catch Indian girl, ... the displacement to the stage directions of concerns about how industrial technologies impact on Mr Darling), Peter Pan starts to seem to be a play with an unconscious. Lurking in that unconscious is an anxiety about female sex...

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