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<p><b>Three plays by the Nobel-laureate Derek Walcott, brought together for the first time in <i>The </i></b><i><b>Haitian</b><b> Trilogy<br></b><br></i>In the history plays that comprise <i>The Haitian Trilogy</i>--<i>Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours</i> and <i>The Haytian Earth</i>--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.<br><br>In <i>Henri Christophe</i> and <i>The Haytian Earth,</i> 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. <i>Drums and Colours,</i> 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.<br><br>From<i> Henri Christophe's </i>high style to the bracing vernacular of <i>The Haytian Earth,</i> to the epic scale and scope of Drums

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Author

Walcott, Derek

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781466880368

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Drama