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The Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and the Haytian EarthPlays by the Nobel laureate, brought together for the first time In the history plays that comprise The Haitian Trilogy Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours and The Haytian Earth Derek Walcott, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, uses verse to tell the story of his native West Indies as a four hundred year cycle of war, conquest and rebellion. In Henri Christophe and The Haytian Earth, Walcott re casts the legacy of Haiti's violent
Plays by the Nobel-laureate, brought together for the first time
In the history plays that comprise The Haitian Trilogy--Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours and The Haytian Earth--Derek Walcott, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, uses verse to tell the story of his native West Indies as a four-hundred-year cycle of war, conquest and rebellion.
In Henri Christophe and The Haytian Earth, Walcott re-casts the legacy of Haiti's violent revolutionaries--led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe--whose rebellion established the first black state in the Americas, but whose cruelty becomes a parable of racial pride and corruption. Drums and Colours, commissioned in 1958 to celebrate the first parliament in Trinidad, is a grand pageant linking the lives of complex, ambiguous heroes: Columbus and Raleigh; Toussaint; and George William Gordon, a martyr of the constitutional era.
From Henri Christophe's high style to the bracing vernacular of The Haytian Earth, to the epic scale and scope of Drums and Colours, in these plays Walcott, one of our most celebrated poets, carved a place in the modern theater for the history of the West Indies, and a sounding room for his own maturing voice.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 05/15/2002
ISBN: 9780374528133
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.20d
Review Citations: Library Journal 11/01/2001 pg. 117
Booklist 12/01/2001 pg. 625
Library Journal 01/01/2002 pg. 105
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