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Best known as the story from the 1904 Puccini opera, the compelling
modern myth of Madame Butterfly has been read, watched, and
re-interpreted for over a century, from Pierre Loti's 1887 novel
Madame Chrysantheme to A.R. Gurney's 1999 play Far East. This
fascinating collaborative volume examines the Madame Butterfly
narrative in a wide variety of cultural contexts - literary,
musical, theatrical, cinematic, historical, and political - and in
a variety of media - opera, drama, film, and prose narratives - and
includes contributions from a wide range of academic disciplines,
such as Asian Studies, English Literature, Theatre, Musicology, and
Film Studies. From its original colonial beginnings, the Butterfly
story has been turned about and inverted in recent years to shed
light back on the nature of the relationship between East and West,
remaining popular in its original version as well as in retellings
such as David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly and David
Cronenberg's screen adaptation. 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.
Painting the Maple explores the critical interplay of raceand
gender in shaping Canadian culture, history, politics and
healthcare. These interdisciplinary essays draw on feminist,
postcolonial,and critical theory in a wide-ranging discussion that
encompasses bothhigh and popular forms of culture, the deliberation
of policy and itsexecution, and social movements as well as
individual authors andtexts. The contributors establish connections
among discourses of race,gender, and nation-building that have
conditioned the formation ofCanada for more than one hundred years.
At times provocative,Painting the Maple illuminates the challenges
that lie aheadfor all Canadians who aspire to create a better
future in a reimaginednation.
Painting the Maple explores the critical interplay of raceand
gender in shaping Canadian culture, history, politics and
healthcare. These interdisciplinary essays draw on feminist,
postcolonial,and critical theory in a wide-ranging discussion that
encompasses bothhigh and popular forms of culture, the deliberation
of policy and itsexecution, and social movements as well as
individual authors andtexts. The contributors establish connections
among discourses of race,gender, and nation-building that have
conditioned the formation ofCanada for more than one hundred years.
At times provocative,Painting the Maple illuminates the challenges
that lie aheadfor all Canadians who aspire to create a better
future in a reimaginednation.
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