The Japan of Pure Invention : Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado /

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Long before Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, long before Barthes explicated his empire of signs, even before Puccini's Madame Butterfly, Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado presented its own distinctive version of Japan. Set in a fictional town called Titipu and populated by charact...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Josephine D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sullivan, Arthur, > 1842-1900. > Mikado.
Mikado (Sullivan, Arthur)
Orientalism
Opera.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Drama.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Opera.
Orientalism.
Orientalisme.
Japan
Japan > In opera.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1885. My objects all sublime : racial performance and commodity culture
  • "My artless Japanese way" : Japanese villages and absent coolies
  • Magical objects and therapeutic yellowface
  • 938-39. "And others of his race" : blackface and yellowface
  • Titipu comes to America : hot and cool Mikados
  • Contemporary Mikados. "The threatened cloud": production and protest
  • Asian American Mikados
  • The Mikado in Japan.

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