Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism
Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism
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歌剧作为批判性的“综合”：世界主义与东方主义界面的理论化
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10.1017/s0010417523000117
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2023
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0.7
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Aeron O’Connor
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Aeron O’Connor
摘要几个世纪以来，欧洲歌剧在舞台上描绘了戏剧性的、异国情调的他者。然而，随着歌剧越来越多地在世界各地被采用，包括那些被它东方化的“东方”他者，它的他者倾向服务于新的，更重要的目的。知识和文化生产的后殖民研究表明，中心与边缘、知识与权力之间的关系是东方主义形式的组成部分。在塔吉克斯坦，一位成功的苏联塔吉克作曲家的女儿今天讲述的歌剧故事揭示了苏联歌剧制作中权力关系和地位的模糊性。她的叙述，除了突出歌剧显而易见的东方主义倾向外，还揭示了苏联中亚歌剧令人惊讶的世界性愿望。世界性的历史和价值观在后殖民知识生产政治中也占有重要地位，但这一概念与东方主义的概念截然不同，甚至是对立的：后者依赖于中心-边缘、知识-权力关系，而前者则渴望逃避这些关系。本文通过对苏联塔吉克斯坦歌剧发展现状的描述，对这种对立提出了挑战，将东方主义和世界主义之间的概念模糊性和相互依赖性理论化，这对歌剧等知识生产领域以及人类学具有重要影响。在苏联中亚歌剧的发展中，东方主义和世界主义的多种形式相互重叠和相互作用，因为许多交叉的意义和社会政治议程进入了它的生产。最终，在东方主义和世界主义之间出现了一个概念空间。这种模棱两可的中间空间提供了一个透镜，用来批判性地评估描绘和与他人交往的复杂、不平衡的实践。
Abstract For centuries, European operas have portrayed dramatic, exotic Others on stage. However, as opera is increasingly adopted around the world, including by those “Eastern” Others it orientalized, its Othering tendencies serve new, more critical purposes. Post-colonial studies of knowledge and cultural production have shown how relations between centers and peripheries, knowledge and power are integral to forms of orientalism. In Tajikistan, the accounts of opera told today by the daughter of a successful Soviet Tajik composer bring to light the ambiguity of power relations and positionalities in Soviet opera’s production. Her accounts, beyond highlighting opera’s readily apparent orientalist tendencies, reveal surprising cosmopolitan aspirations in Soviet Central Asian opera. Cosmopolitan histories and values also feature heavily in post-colonial politics of knowledge production, but the concept appears worlds apart from, even in opposition to that of orientalism: the latter feeds off center-periphery, knowledge-power relations, while the former aspires to evade them. Through this present-day account of opera’s development in Soviet Tajikistan, this article challenges this opposition, theorizing a conceptual ambiguity and interdependence between orientalism and cosmopolitanism, which has important consequences for knowledge-producing fields like opera, as well as anthropology. Multiple forms of orientalism and cosmopolitanism overlapped and interacted in the development of Soviet Central Asian opera as numerous, intersecting meanings and socio-political agendas went into its production. Ultimately, a conceptual space emerges between the orientalism(s) and cosmopolitanism(s) at play. This ambiguous space in-between offers a lens for critically evaluating the complex, uneven practice of portraying and engaging with Others.
Abbas Amanat 和 Assef Ashraf 编辑，《波斯世界 5：重新思考共享领域》。
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2018
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作者：
Chiduru Watanabe; Kaori Fukuzawa; Yoshio Okiyama; Motoyasu Adachi; Shigenori Tanaka; Teruki Honma;安達 基泰;Hirotake Maeda
通讯作者：
Hirotake Maeda