Madame Butterfly, John Luther Long, and, A Japanese nightingale, Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton) : two orientalist texts

著者

• Long, John Luther
• Watanna, Onoto, b. 1879
• Honey, Maureen
• Cole, Jean Lee

書誌事項

Madame Butterfly, John Luther Long, and, A Japanese nightingale, Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton) : two orientalist texts

edited by Maureen Honey and Jean Lee Cole

Rutgers University Press, c2002

• : pbk

タイトル別名

Madame Butterfly and A Japanese nightingale

"Madame Butterfly" and "A Japanese nightingale"

Madame Butterfly, and, A Japanese nightingale : 2 orientalist texts

注記

Originally published: 1898, 1901

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-184)

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Madame Butterfly (1898) and A Japanese Nightingale (1901) both appeared at the height of American fascination with Japanese culture. These two novellas are paired here together for the first time to show how they defined and redefined contemporary misconceptions of the "Orient." This is the first reprinting of A Japanese Nightingale since its 1901 appearance, when it propelled Winnifred Eaton (using the pseudonym Onoto Watanna) to fame. John Luther Long's Madame Butterfly introduced American readers to the figure of the tragic geisha who falls in love with, and is then rejected by, a dashing American man; the opera Puccini based upon this work continues to enthrall audiences worldwide. Although Long emphasized the insensitivity of Westerners in their dealings with Asian people, the ever-faithful Cho-Cho-San typified Asian subservience and Western dominance. A Japanese Nightingale takes Long's revision several steps further. Eaton's heroine is powerful in her own right and is loved on her own terms. A Japanese Nightingale is also significant for its hidden personal nature. Although Eaton's pen name implied she was Japanese, she was, in fact, of Chinese descent. Living in a society that was virulently anti-Chinese, she used a Japanese screen for her own problematic identity, and A Japanese Nightingale tells us as much about the author's struggle to embrace her Asian heritage as it does about the stereotypes she contests.

目次

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Note on the Texts Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long A Japanese Nightingale by Onoto Watanna Edited by Winnifred Eaton Appendix Glossary Bibliography

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BD02884852
• ISBN:
  • 9780813530635
• LCCN: 2001048400
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New Brunswick, N.J.
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 184 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Japan -- Fiction