The Japan of pure invention
Subtitle: Gilbert and Sullivan's the Mikado
By: Josephine Lee.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780816665792; 9780816665808; 9780816673599
Subjects: Sullivan, Arthur, -- Sir, -- 1842-1900; Japan in opera; Orientalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. 1885. My objects all sublime : racial performance and commodity culture ; "My artless Japanese way" : Japanese villages and absent coolies ; Magical objects and therapeutic yellowface; title: Part II. 1938-39. "And others of his race" : blackface and yellowface ; Titipu comes to America : hot and cool Mikados; title: Part III. Contemporary Mikados. "The threatened cloud": production and protest ; Asian American Mikados ; The Mikado in Japan.