{"product_id":"walker-and-ghost-dance-plays","title":"Walker and Ghost Dance: Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, \u003ci\u003eWalker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGhost Dance.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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 \u003ci\u003eGhost Dance\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWalker\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135368740916,"sku":"9780374528140","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/8638\/5972\/files\/imageloader_ebc9c7e7-6197-4dc1-b45c-dbfad86ae68e.jpg?v=1759072744","url":"https:\/\/worldcaribbeanbooks.com\/products\/walker-and-ghost-dance-plays","provider":"World Caribbean Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}