Arthur Groos - Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai: Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy' 

In a live, hybrid (in-person and livestreamed) Chats in the Stacks book talk, Arthur Groos, Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities, will discuss his new book Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai: Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy' (Cambridge University Press, 2023), in which he examines how the "temporary marriage" practices between Western men and Japanese women in the nineteenth century influenced the plot of Giacomo Puccini's famous opera, Madama Butterfly (1904).
This talk is hosted by Olin Library.