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Carmen : a gypsy geography
- Title
- Carmen : a gypsy geography / Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum.
- Author
- Bennahum, Ninotchka.
- Publication
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 13-1927 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | *MGS (Spanish) 13-7162 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Description
- xxii, 269 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "The figure of Carmen has emerged as a cipher for the unfettered female artist. Dance historian and performance theorist Ninotchka Bennahum shows us Carmen as embodied historical archive, a figure through which we come to understand the promises and dangers of nomadic, transnational identity, and the immanence of performance as an expanded historical methodology. Bennahum traces the genealogy of the female Gypsy presence in her iconic operatic role from her genesis in the ancient Mediterranean world, her emergence as flamenco artist in the architectural spaces of Islamic Spain, her persistent manifestation in Picasso, and her contemporary relevance on stage. This many-layered geography of the Gypsy dancer provides the book with its unique nonlinear form that opens new pathways to reading performance and writing history. Includes rare archival photographs of Gypsy artists."--Publisher's website.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source (note)
- Gift; of Ninotchka Bennahum;
- Contents
- Theoretical Introduction -- Inventing Carmen: Prosper Merimee and the Gypsy Presence in Western Europe -- Georges Bizet and the Genealogy of Carmen -- Mythic Space and Ancient Carmen -- The Gypsy Inside and Outside of History -- Gypsies in the Dance Cafes of the Islamic Mediterranean -- Picasso, the Bull, and Carmen -- Space and Place in Islamic Spain: The Archeology of Flamenco -- Carmen, a Close Reading of a Nomadic Opera.
- Call Number
- JFF 13-1927
- ISBN
- 9780819573537 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0819573531 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780819573544 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012050033
- 40022617047
- OCLC
- 810111330
- Author
- Bennahum, Ninotchka.
- Title
- Carmen : a gypsy geography / Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum.
- Publisher
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source
- Gift; of Ninotchka Bennahum; 2013 (copy in *MGS (Spanish) 13-7162)
- Added Author
- Bennahum, Ninotchka, donor
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022617047
- Research Call Number
- JFF 13-1927*MGS (Spanish) 13-7162