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concept-2481	none	“Song’s for a New World”: The Revision of Gender and Restructuring of Narrative in M. Butterfly (1988, 1993, and 2017)	2020	17	.pdf	application/pdf	5663	242	57	To ignore this correlation is to do a disservice to the text and while I am specifically focusing on the gendered aspects in this essay, I cannot dismiss that M. Butterfly, with its intersections of sexuality and colonialism, and its rewriting of Western mythos about the East perhaps most easily understood through Edward Said’s provocative term Orientalism, has received not only a Tony award, but numerous scholarly studies attempting to situate Asian and Asian American culture and masculinity, to critique the extended misogyny of the play, and to show (in one way or another) not only the play’s brilliant investigation of the slippage of gender identity, but also its potential role as a critique of various cultural forms.v To elaborate on this, I will discuss the adaptation of several scenes at first from the play to the film, then from the 1988 original text to the 2017 revival. What you see onstage is who I really am.xxvii In summation, the revival presents a much more complicated layering of gender identities than the original.	cache/concept-2481.pdf	txt/concept-2481.txt