Jennifer M. Wilks

Carmen in Diaspora (eBook, PDF)

Adaptation, Race, and Opera's Most Famous Character

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Carmen in Diaspora is a cultural history of Carmen adaptations set in African diasporic contexts. Beginning with Prosper Mérimée's novella and Georges Bizet's opera and continuing through twentieth- and twentieth-first century interpretations in literature, film, and musical theatre, the book explores how opera's most famous character has exceeded the 19th-century French context in which she was created and taken on a life of her own. Through this transformation, the Carmen figure has sparked important conversations not only about French culture and canonical opera but also about Black womanhood, community, and self-determination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197566152
• Artikelnr.: 72260087

Autorenporträt

Jennifer M. Wilks is an associate professor of English, African and African Diaspora Studies, and comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also directs the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: Carmen Is Everywhere
* 1. Carmen in Context: Reframing Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet
* 2. "Black Bohemia": Echoes of Carmen in Wallace Thurman and Claude
McKay
* 3. Postracial Stardom: Carmen and the Making of Dorothy Dandridge and
Beyoncé
* 4. "No more than the others": From the Celestial to the Communal in
Karmen Geï and U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
* 5. "The Queen of Havana": National Liberation and Personal Freedom in
Carmen la Cubana
* Epilogue
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index