Artigo Revisado por pares

Moses/Marianne Parts the Red Sea: Allegories of Liberty in the Bicentennial of the French Revolution

1998; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 16; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1068/d160347

ISSN

1472-3433

Autores

Sarah Bonnemaison,

Tópico(s)

Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

Resumo

The author critiques the view of spectacle as misrepresentation and proposes that allegory presents a possibility for redemptive readings of spectacle. In a case study of the French bicentennial commemoration of 1989 she explores how Jessye Norman's performance of Marianne—the traditional Republican allegory of French liberty—reconfigured notions of Nation in a way that served the socialist policies of Mitterand.

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