Carmen in Diaspora

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Carmen in Diaspora is written by Associate Professor of English African & African Diaspora Studies and Comparative Literature Jennifer Wilks and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197566146 (ISBN 10) and 9780197566145 (ISBN 13).

Carmen in Diaspora is a cultural history of Carmen adaptations set in African diasporic contexts. Beginning with Prosper Mérimée's novella and Georges Bizet's opera and continuing through twentieth- and twentieth-first century interpretations in literature, film, and musical theatre, the book explores how opera's most famous character has exceeded the 19th-century French context in which she was created and taken on a life of her own. Through this transformation, the Carmen figure has sparked important conversations not only about French culture and canonical opera but also about Black womanhood, community, and self-determination.