{"product_id":"carmen-in-diaspora-adaptation-race-and-operas-most-famous-character-9780197566145","title":"Carmen in Diaspora: Adaptation, Race, and Opera's Most Famous Character","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jennifer M. Wilks\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - Opera\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarmen in Diaspora\u003c\/em\u003e is a cultural history of Carmen adaptations set in African diasporic contexts. It explores the phenomenon of the connection between the story of Carmen, which originally appeared in Prosper M�rim�e's eponymous 1845 novella and came to prominence through Georges Bizet's 1875 opera, with prolific popular recreations in African diasporic settings. The source texts for Carmen not only suggest nineteenth-century French negotiations of Blackness via the Romani community, but also provide provocative frameworks through which to examine conceptions of Black womanhood and self-determination in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through analyses of M�rim�e and Bizet, the Harlem Renaissance novels \u003cem\u003eThe Blacker the Berry \u003c\/em\u003e(1929), \u003cem\u003eBanjo (1929), and Romance in Marseille \u003c\/em\u003e(2020); the U.S. movie musicals \u003cem\u003eCarmen Jones\u003c\/em\u003e (1954) and \u003cem\u003eCarmen: A Hip Hopera \u003c\/em\u003e(2001); the Senegalese and South African feature films \u003cem\u003eKarmen Ge�\u003c\/em\u003e (2001) and \u003cem\u003eU-Carmen eKhayelitsha \u003c\/em\u003e(2005), respectively; and the Cuban-set stage musical \u003cem\u003eCarmen la Cubana \u003c\/em\u003e(2016), \u003cem\u003eCarmen in Diaspora\u003c\/em\u003e examines how these works illuminate the cultural currents of the nineteenth-century European context in which the character was born. The book also interrogates social categories, particularly gender, race, and sexuality, in contemporary Europe, North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. \u003cem\u003eCarmen is Diaspora\u003c\/em\u003e is an adaptation study that emphasizes connections formed through the transposition rather than imposition of European culture as it considers how artists have brought - and continue to bring - new energy, vision, and life to the story of opera's most famous character.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47813147033751,"sku":"9780197566145","price":9183.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780197566145.webp?v=1778333897","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/carmen-in-diaspora-adaptation-race-and-operas-most-famous-character-9780197566145","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}