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The Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums And Colours, And The Haytian Earth
by Derek Walcott

    Publication Date: May 15, 2002
    List Price: $27.00
    Format: Paperback, 448 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780374528133
    Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
    Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

    Paperback Description:

    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.



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