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Title:

A vision of the Orient : texts, intertexts, and contexts of Madame Butterfly / edited by Jonathan Wisenthal ... [et al.].

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xiii, 262 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Puccini, Giacomo,--1858-1924.--Madama Butterfly.
Long, John Luther,--1861-1927.--Madame Butterfly.
Puccini, Giacomo,--1858-1924--Adaptations.
Long, John Luther,--1861-1927--Adaptations.
Puccini, Giacomo,--1858-1924.--Madame Butterfly.
Long, John Luther,--1861-1927.--Madame Butterfly.
Puccini, Giacomo,--1858-1924--Adaptations.
Long, John Luther,--1861-1927--Adaptations.

Other Authors:

Wisenthal, J. L., 1940-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-254) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780802088017 (bound)
0802088015 (bound)

LCCN:

2006299645

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)