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Carmen : a gypsy geography / Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bennahum, Ninotchka.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carmen (Fictitious character)--Historiography.
- Carmen (Fictitious character).
- Romanies--Material culture.
- Romanies.
- Romanies--Social life and customs.
- Romanies--Mediterranean Region.
- Romanies--Spain.
- Flamenco--Spain.
- Flamenco.
- Flamenco--Social aspects--Spain.
- Social aspects.
- Material culture.
- Historiography.
- Spain.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- Encounters with the Gypsy female flamenco dancer throughout history 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.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Inventing Carmen: Prosper Mérimée and the Gypsy Presence in Western Europe 9
- Chapter 2 Georges Bizet and the Genealogy of Carmen 32
- Chapter 3 Mythic Space and Ancient Carmen 68
- Chapter 4 The Gypsy Inside and Outside of History 93
- Chapter 5 Gypsies in the Dance Cafes of the Islamic Mediterranean 132
- Chapter 6 Picasso, the Bull, and Carmen 153
- Chapter 7 Space and Place in Islamic Spain: The Archeology of Flamenco 178
- Chapter 8 Carmen, a Close Reading of a Nomadic Opera 194.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780819573537
- 0819573531
- OCLC:
- 810111330
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