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Question: In his landmark postcolonial study Orientalism, scholar Edward Said writes: "The Orient is not only adjacent to Europe; it is also the place of Europe's greatest and richest and oldest colonies, the source of its civilizations and languages, its cultural contestant, and one of its deepest and most recurring images of the Other." Said goes on to argue: "the Orient has helped to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience." Discuss the extent to which Said's ideas apply to M. Butterfly, a drama inspired by Puccini's orientalist opera Madame Butterfly. How is the racial and gender identity of protagonist René Gallimard defined by his relationship to the "Other" as represented by the East/Asia and particularly by Song? What fantasies about race, gender, and sexuality does Gallimard rely upon to perform a version of himself that enables him to feel the social/cultural power of his position as a white heterosexual male?

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