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ISBN: 9780300169461 9786613600868 0300169469 9780300115215 0300115210 1280571268 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,
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In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores the Western portrayal of Japanese women-and geishas in particular-from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. She argues that in the West, Japanese women have come to embody certain ideas about feminine sexuality, and she analyzes how these ideas have been expressed in diverse art forms, ranging from fiction and opera to the visual arts and music videos. Among the many works Kawaguchi discusses are the art criticism of Baudelaire and Huysmans, the opera Madama Butterfly, the sculptures of Rodin, the Broadway play Teahouse of the August Moon, and the international best seller Memoirs of a Geisha. Butterfly's Sisters also examines the impact on early twentieth-century theatre, drama, and dance theory of the performance styles of the actresses Madame Hanako and Sadayakko, both formerly geishas.
Geishas --- Civilization, Western. --- Civilization, Occidental --- Occidental civilization --- Western civilization --- Geigi --- Geiko --- Geisha --- Maiko (Geishas) --- Meiko --- Entertainers --- History.
ISBN: 9780231141185 0231141181 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York: Columbia university press,
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Geishas --- Fiction. --- Romans, nouvelles, etc. --- J5933 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose by individual authors (1868- ) --- Geisha --- Entertainers --- Geigi --- Geiko --- Maiko (Geishas) --- Meiko --- Geishas - Fiction
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ISBN: 1009250663 1009250698 9781009250665 1009250701 1009250671 9781009250702 9781009250696 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
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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 Archival sources, many unpublished, reveal how Puccini and his librettists imbued the opera with differing constructions of the action and its heroine.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.
Geishas --- Drama --- History and criticism. --- Geigi --- Geiko --- Geisha --- Maiko (Geishas) --- Meiko --- Entertainers --- Orientalism in opera. --- Temporary marriage --- Puccini, Giacomo, --- Marriage --- Opera
ISBN: 0824814886 Year: 1993 Publisher: Honolulu University of Hawaii press
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J4233 --- J4188 --- Geishas --- -Prostitution --- -Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Sex trade (Prostitution) --- Sex work (Prostitution) --- Street prostitution --- Trade, Sex (Prostitution) --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Work, Sex (Prostitution) --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- Geisha --- Entertainers --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social pathology -- prostitution --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- night-time entertainment, mizu shōbai, geisha, hostess, mama-san --- Tokyo (Japan) --- -Yoshiwara (Tokyo, Japan) --- -Social conditions --- -Shin Yoshiwara (Tokyo, Japan) --- Tokyo (Japan : Prefecture) --- Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Japan) --- Tonggyŏng (Japan) --- Tokio (Japan) --- Tʻokʻyoo (Japan) --- Tung-ching tu (Japan) --- Tung-ching tu tʻing (Japan) --- Tōkyō-shi (Japan) --- Tung-ching (Japan) --- Dongjing (Japan) --- 東京 (Japan) --- Tokyo Metropolis (Japan) --- 東京都 (Japan) --- Tōkyō-to (Japan) --- طوكيو (Japan) --- Ṭūkiyū (Japan) --- Горад Токіа (Japan) --- Horad Tokia (Japan) --- Токіа (Japan) --- Tokia (Japan) --- Токио (Japan) --- Social conditions --- Prostitution --- Female prostitution --- Yoshiwara (Tokyo, Japan) --- Shin Yoshiwara (Tokyo, Japan) --- Social conditions. --- Geigi --- Geiko --- Maiko (Geishas) --- Meiko --- Sex work
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