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A vision of the Orient : texts, intertexts, and contexts of Madame Butterfly

Author: J L Wisenthal; et al
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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.

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Genre/Form: Adaptations
Named Person: Giacomo Puccini; John Luther Long; Giacomo Puccini; John Luther Long; Giacomo Puccini; John Luther Long; Giacomo Puccini; John Luther Long
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: J L Wisenthal; et al
ISBN: 0802088015 9780802088017
OCLC Number: 64670430
Description: xiii, 262 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Pre-texts. Inventing the Orient / Jonathan Wisenthal --
Texts. Mounting butterflies / Susan McClary ; Cio-Cio-San the geisha / Vera Micznik ; 'Re-Orienting' the vision : ethnicity and authenticity from Suzuki to Comrade Chin / Melinda Boyd ; That old familiar song : the theatre of culture in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly / Kate McInturff --
Intertexts. Late mutations of cinema's Butterfly / Bart Testa ; White Nagasaki/White Japan and a post-atomic Butterfly : Joshua Logan's Sayonara (1957) / Brian McIlroy ; Playing Butterfly with David Henry Hwang and Robert Lepage / Sherrill Grace --
Contexts. Madame Butterfly and the absence of empire / Richard Cavell ; The taming of the Oriental shrew : the two Asias in Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Turandot / Maria Ng ; Iron Butterfly : Cio-Cio-San and Japanese imperialism / Joshua S. Mostow ; Madame Butterfly : behind every great woman ... / Joy James ; M. Butterfly : staging choices and their meanings / Rachel Ditor and Jan Selman.
Responsibility: edited by Jonathan Wisenthal ... [et al.].
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