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Walker and Ghost Dance

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Author: Derek Walcott

Walker and Ghost Dance

Walker and Ghost Dance

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Two dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, Walker and Ghost Dance.

On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine...

Page Count
144
On Sale
08/15/2002

Book Details

Two dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, Walker and Ghost Dance.

On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In Ghost Dance, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion--Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents--into a portrait of life at a crossroads of American history.

In Walker, an opera first performed in 1992 and revised for its revival in 2001, Walcott shifts his attention east, taking for his subject David Walker, the nineteenth-century black abolitionist. In Walcott 's hands Walker becomes a classical hero for his people: a leader who is also a poet.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374528140

In The News

“The Walcott line is still sponsored by Shakespeare and the Bible, happy to surprise by fine excess.” —Seamus Heaney, The Boston Globe

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Walker and Ghost Dance

Walker and Ghost Dance

$19.00