Abstract
In Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the word “queer” recurs rather frequently. Queerness in Carroll’s times did refer mainly to strangeness, rather than establishing an explicit connection with sexuality. Nevertheless, queerness is definitely a relevant trait of the text, one that the Disney version has not managed to erase. Theorizing Disney’s Alice in Wonderland as a queer space, in the sense intended by José Esteban Muñoz, sheds light on how the fascination with Wonderland may also relate to how binary thinking and rigid dichotomies are there repeatedly deconstructed, offering instead a whimsical space of queerness, liberation, and otherness.
Recommended Citation
Arnavas, Francesca. "“Queer things happening”: Wonderland as a Wish-Landscape." Marvels & Tales 40.1 (2026). Web. <https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/marvels/vol40/iss1/3>.
