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Introduction: Attitudes Toward The Other, Matthew Isaac Cohen
Introduction: Attitudes Toward The Other, Matthew Isaac Cohen
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
The use of puppets, objects, masks and cantastorias in various societies around the globe, to represent and stage the Other.
Mamulengo As Cultural Resistance, Mayumi Ilari
Mamulengo As Cultural Resistance, Mayumi Ilari
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
This chapter, using two recent examples from Brazilian puppet masters, briefly presents the origins of Brazilian puppetry and discusses the way Brazilian mamulengo tradition operates as a means of historical and cultural resistance, while enhancing diversity and racial equality through popular culture and theatre.
A Real American Wife, A Japanese Object: Puppetry And The Orient In Minghella’S Madam Butterfly, Tobi Poster-Su
A Real American Wife, A Japanese Object: Puppetry And The Orient In Minghella’S Madam Butterfly, Tobi Poster-Su
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
In Anthony Minghella’s celebrated 2005 production of Madam Butterfly, three white men manipulate the small, fragile body of Sorrow (Cio-Cio-San/Butterfly’s child), and, in a dream sequence, Cio-Cio-San herself–this paper explores how the production uses puppetry to represent the racialized Other, and how this might subvert, reinforce, or make visible Orientalist views of the East within the source text.