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Groos, Arthur, author.
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Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Madama Butterfly.
Geishas -- Japan -- Drama -- History and criticism.
Temporary marriage -- Japan -- Drama -- History and criticism.
Orientalism in opera.
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Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai : transpositions of a "Japanese tragedy" / Arthur Groos.
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Groos, Arthur, author.
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
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Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Madama Butterfly.
Geishas -- Japan -- Drama -- History and criticism.
Temporary marriage -- Japan -- Drama -- History and criticism.
Orientalism in opera.
ISBN:
9781009250672 (hardback) :
1009250671 (hardback)
Description:
xxv, 269 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm
Contents:
Introduction. “Marriage... in the Japanese Way” -- Loti and Long - with an Eyewitness Account -- Madama Butterfly : a conflicted genesis -- Far West / Far East : Luigi Illica's Libretto -- Madama Butterfly Between West and East -- Returns of the Native : Madamu Batafurai in Japan -- Returns of the Native : Imaginative Transpositions.
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"Puccini's famous but controversial Madama Butterfly reflects a practice of "temporary marriage" between Western men and Japanese women in nineteenth century treaty ports. Groos' book identifies the plot's origin in an eye-witness account and traces its transmission via John Luther Long's short story and David Belasco's play. Archival sources, many unpublished, reveal how Puccini and his librettists imbued the opera with differing constructions of the action and its heroine. Groos's analysis suggests how they constructed a "contemporary" music-drama with multiple possibilities for interpreting the misalliance between a callous American naval officer and an impoverished fifteen-year old geisha, providing a more complex understanding of the heroine's presumed "marriage". As an orientalizing tragedy with a racially inflected representation of Cio-Cio-San, the opera became a lightning rod for identity politics in Japan, while also stimulating decolonizing transpositions into indigenous theatre traditions such as Bunraku puppet theatre and Takarazuka musicals"--
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