... Great White Father save me from pirates. Me his velly nice friend now; no let pirates hurt him- (129). Indeed, the use of "velly- sounds like a racist stage depiction of a Chinese person, suggesting that all who are not white meld into an undifferientiated "other."" The deployment of the phrase "The Great White Father,"" mimicking the nineteenth-century appellations of Queen Victoria ... and its implications for maintaining class distinctions. Barrie has Tinker Bell's utterances unheard by the audience but clearly marked as being in a foreign tongue - that of the fairies - that needs tr...

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