Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy' |
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| Author:
| Groos, Arthur |
| ISBN: | 978-1-009-25066-5 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2022 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Digital download and online |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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Emphasizing the conflicted transcultural encounter portrayed in Madama Butterfly, this book examines nineteenth-century treaty-port culture and the eye-witness account that underlies the opera, addresses questions of race and gender in its representation of the heroine, and explores the opera's controversial reception in Japan.
Emphasizing the conflicted transcultural encounter portrayed in Madama Butterfly, this book examines nineteenth-century treaty-port culture and the eye-witness account that underlies the opera, addresses questions of race and gender in its representation of the heroine, and explores the opera's controversial reception in Japan.