A Vision of the Orient : : Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts of Madame Butterfly / / ed. by Jonathan Wisenthal, Sherrill Grace, Melinda Boyd, Brian McIlroy, Vera Micznik.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Boyd, Melinda,; Cavell, Richard,; Ditor, Rachel,; Grace, Sherrill,; James, Joy,; Mcclary, Susan,; Mcilroy, Brian,; Mcinturff, Kate,; Micznik, Vera,; Mostow, Joshua S.,; Ng, Maria,; Selman, Jan,; Testa, Bart,; Wisenthal, Jonathan,
• HerausgeberIn: Boyd, Melinda,; Grace, Sherrill,; McIlroy, Brian,; Micznik, Vera,; Wisenthal, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Best known as the story from the 1904 Puccini opera, the compelling modern myth of Madame Butterfly has been read, watched, and re-interpreted for over a century, from Pierre Loti's 1887 novel Madame Chrysanthème to A.R. Gurney's 1999 play Far East. This fascinating collaborative volume examines the Madame Butterfly narrative in a wide variety of cultural contexts - literary, musical, theatrical, cinematic, historical, and political - and in a variety of media - opera, drama, film, and prose narratives - and includes contributions from a wide range of academic disciplines, such as Asian Studies, English Literature, Theatre, Musicology, and Film Studies.From its original colonial beginnings, the Butterfly story has been turned about and inverted in recent years to shed light back on the nature of the relationship between East and West, remaining popular in its original version as well as in retellings such as David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly and David Cronenberg's screen adaptation. The combined perspectives that result from this collaboration provide new and challenging insights into the powerful, resonant myth of a painful encounter between East and West.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Madame Butterfly: A Selective Chronology -- Preface -- PART ONE: PRE-TEXTS -- Inventing the Orient -- PART TWO: TEXTS -- Mounting Butterflies -- Cio-Cio-San the Geisha -- 'Re-Orienting' the Vision: Ethnicity and Authenticity from Suzuki to Comrade Chin -- That Old Familiar Song: The Theatre of Culture in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly -- PART THREE: INTERTEXTS -- Late Mutations of Cinema's Butterfly -- White Nagasaki / White Japan and a Post-Atomic Butterfly: Joshua Logan's Sayonara (1957) -- Playing Butterfly with David Henry Hwang and Robert Lepage -- PART FOUR: CONTEXTS -- Madama Butterfly and the Absence of Empire -- The Taming of the Oriental Shrew: The Two Asias in Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Turandot -- Iron Butterfly: Cio-Cio-San and Japanese Imperialism -- Madame Butterfly: Behind Every Great Woman ... -- M. Butterfly: Staging Choices and Their Meanings -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index