A Vision of the Orient : : Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts of Madame Butterfly /

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

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 ex...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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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

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