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Whose/who's Salome? Natalia Trouhanowa, a dancing diva

Rowden’s chapter is one of seven in this interdisciplinary volume edited by her; she also wrote a substantial introduction. With contributors from musicology, comparative literature and film studies, the volume offer new insights into Salome’s appropriation and reinterpretation across the arts of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It investigates the performance and embodiment of Salome, not just in Wilde’s and Strauss’s treatment, but as a cultural icon in fin-de-siècle society, whose appeal for ever-new interpretations endures. To explore Salome and her performance chapters draw on a wide range of detailed sources and incisive theoretical approaches from literary theory to reception studies, and from microhistory to spatial theory. Each chapter suggests new ways in which performing and performative bodies reveal alternative stories, narratives and interpretational perspectives.