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200 14$aThe Japan of pure invention$b[electronic resource] $eGilbert and Sullivan's the Mikado /$fJosephine Lee
210   $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (274 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aPart 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 -- Part II. 1938-39. "And others of his race" : blackface and yellowface ; Titipu comes to America : hot and cool Mikados -- Part III. Contemporary Mikados. "The threatened cloud": production and protest ; Asian American Mikados ; The Mikado in Japan.
330   $aLong before Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation , long before Barthes explicated his empire of signs, even before Puccini's Madame Butterfly , Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado presented its own distinctive version of Japan. Set in a fictional town called Titipu and populated by characters named Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, and Pooh-Bah, the opera has remained popular since its premiere in 1885. Tracing the history of The Mikado's performances from Victorian times to the present, Josephine Lee reveals the continuing viability of the play's surprisingly complex racial dynamics as they have been adapted 
606   $aJapan in opera
606   $aOrientalism
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615  0$aOrientalism.
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