Moses/Marianne Parts the Red Sea: Allegories of Liberty in the Bicentennial of the French Revolution
- 1 June 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
- Vol. 16 (3) , 347-365
- https://doi.org/10.1068/d160347
Abstract
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.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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