Research Catalog

Title

Carmen : a gypsy geography / Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum.

Author

Bennahum, Ninotchka.

Publication

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]

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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.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Bizet, Georges 1838-1875
• Mérimée, Prosper 1803-1870
• Picasso, Pablo 1881-1973
• Carmen (Fictitious character) > Historiography
• Romanies > Material culture
• Romanies > Social life and customs
• Romanies > Mediterranean Region
• Romanies > Spain
• Flamenco > Spain
• Flamenco > Social aspects > Spain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780819573537 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0819573531 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780819573544 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012050033

OCLC

• 810111330
• SCSB-12871379

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library