Butterfly's Sisters: The Geisha in Western Culture - Rilegato

Kawaguchi, Yoko

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ISBN 10: 0300115210 ISBN 13: 9780300115215

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

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 analyses 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 bestseller 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.

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L'autore:

Born in Japan, and educated in the United States, Canada and Japan, Yoko Kawaguchi graduated with a degree in Humanities from International Christian University, Tokyo. She holds an MA in English and American Literature from Kyoto University, and has been a postgraduate research student at Newnham College, Cambridge. She has written and lectured on many aspects of Japanese culture, including garden design, costume and drama. She currently lives in Cardiff, Wales.

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Book by Kawaguchi Yoko

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0300115210
• ISBN 13: 9780300115215
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 342