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Walker and the Ghost Dance

Walker and the Ghost Dance

Walker and the Ghost Dance Paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Derek Walcott

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  • Title Walker and the Ghost Dance
  • Author Derek Walcott
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York:
  • Publication date 2002-08-15
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780374528140_inp
  • ISBN 9780374528140 / 0374528144
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.2 x 4.42 x 0.68 in (25.91 x 11.23 x 1.73 cm)
  • Category Plays / Drama
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002101069
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.54
  • Quantity available 197

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Reader reviews for Walker and the Ghost Dance

From the publisher

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.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2002, Page 1912
  • Library Journal, 07/01/2002, Page 81

About the author

Derek Walcott (1930-2017) was born in St. Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930. His Collected Poems: 1948-1984 was published in 1986, and his subsequent works include a book-length poem, Omeros (1990); a collection of verse, The Bounty (1997); and, in an edition illustrated with his own paintings, the long poem Tiepolo's Hound (2000). His numerous plays include The Haitian Trilogy (2001) and Walker and The Ghost Dance (2002). Walcott received the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
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