{"product_id":"haitian-trilogy-plays-henri-christophe-drums-and-colours-and-the-haytian-earth","title":"Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and the Haytian Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree plays by the Nobel-laureate Derek Walcott, brought together for the first time in \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHaitian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the history plays that comprise \u003ci\u003eThe Haitian Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e--\u003ci\u003eHenri Christophe, Drums and Colours\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Haytian Earth\u003c\/i\u003e--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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHenri Christophe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Haytian Earth, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eDrums and Colours, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom\u003ci\u003e Henri Christophe's \u003c\/i\u003ehigh style to the bracing vernacular of \u003ci\u003eThe Haytian Earth, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135146082356,"sku":"9780374528133","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/8638\/5972\/files\/imageloader_70a756d3-a042-454b-b7b1-d3127bb1b174.jpg?v=1759069496","url":"https:\/\/worldcaribbeanbooks.com\/products\/haitian-trilogy-plays-henri-christophe-drums-and-colours-and-the-haytian-earth","provider":"World Caribbean Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}