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6 - Returns of the Native: Imaginative Transpositions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2023

Arthur Groos
Arthur Groos
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Cornell University, New York
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Chapter 6 focuses on Madama Butterfly into Japanese theatre genres: a Takarazuka Condensed Madama Butterfly (1931), which updates the opera’s bicultural tragedy in the increasingly xenophobic atmosphere of Showa cultural politics; a Bunraku puppet play recuperating the heroine in the tradition of a Japanese lovers’ tragedy (1956); and a haunting Takarazuka Three Generation Cho-Cho-san (1953), tracing the fates of Butterfly’s son (and US naval officer) Joey and his beloved Kiyo across three generations of Japanese-American history to their eventual happy reunion in post–A-bomb Nagasaki.

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transpositionsTakarazuka Condensed Madama Butterfly (1931)Bunraku puppet version (1956)Takarazuka Three Generation Cho–Cho–san (1953)
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Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai
Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy'
 , pp. 209 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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