{"product_id":"books-the-haitian-trilogy-by-derek-walcott","title":"The Haitian Trilogy","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\u003eTrilogy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eHenri Christophe's\u003c\/i\u003e high 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","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53503804834065,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780374528133.jpg?v=1778075413","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-the-haitian-trilogy-by-derek-walcott","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}