Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai: Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy'

ISBN-13: 9781009250672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 300 str.

New York) Groos Arthur (Cornell University

Opis

Examines post-colonial issues in Madama Butterfly, the historical background, conflicted representation of the heroine, and controversial reception in Japan.

Recenzje

'This truly goundbreaking book sheds new and fascinating light not only on the conception and composition of Puccini's _Madama Butterfly_, but also on the Japanese origins of Madame Butterfly's story and the Japanese reception of the opera, which saw its notorious orientalism questioned and subverted through ingenious adaptation and creative re-appropriation. Groos makes us listen differently to a work we thought we knew all too well.' Emanuele Senici, University of Rome La Sapienza

Spis treści

Introduction: 'Marriage. . . In the Japanese way': 1. Loti and Long – with an eyewitness account Madame Chrysanthème and Madame Butterfly; 2. Madama Butterfly: A conflicted genesis; 3. Far west/far east: Luigi Illicia's libretto; 4. Madama Butterfly between west and east; 5. Returns of the native: Madamu Batafurai in Japan; 6. Returns of the native: Imaginative transpositions; Bibliography.