Professor Peter Gourevitch discusses the themes of "Madama Butterfly"
"A timeless work explores themes of adaptation, conflict"
May 14, 2009
By Peter Gourevitch, San Diego Union Tribune's SignOnSanDiego.com
“Madama Butterfly” is a love story, and timeless, but set in the very specific context of Japan's response to the West, and specifically to the United States, and as such evokes a lot of themes we discuss at UC San Diego's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
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