{"product_id":"9780374528133","title":"The Haitian Trilogy: Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and The Haitian Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlays by the Nobel-laureate, brought together for the first time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008437797104,"sku":"9780374528133","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374528133_p0.jpg?v=1763690947","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374528133","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}