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Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai - Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy' (Hardcover)
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Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai - Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy' (Hardcover)
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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 Archival sources, many unpublished, reveal how Puccini and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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