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The Japan of Pure Invention: Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado
Josephine Lee
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Description for The Japan of Pure Invention: Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 25 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
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 characters named Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, and Pooh-Bah, the opera has remained popular since its premiere in 1885. Tracing the history of The Mikado’s performances from Victorian times to the present, Josephine Lee reveals the continuing viability of the play’s surprisingly complex racial dynamics as they have been adapted to different times and settings. Lee connects yellowface performance to blackface minstrelsy, ... Read more
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 characters named Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, and Pooh-Bah, the opera has remained popular since its premiere in 1885. Tracing the history of The Mikado’s performances from Victorian times to the present, Josephine Lee reveals the continuing viability of the play’s surprisingly complex racial dynamics as they have been adapted to different times and settings. Lee connects yellowface performance to blackface minstrelsy, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816665808
SKU
V9780816665808
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About Josephine Lee
Josephine Lee is associate professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage and coeditor (with Imogene Lim and Yuko Matsukawa) of Re/Collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Culture History.
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