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Walker ; and The ghost dance
- Title
- Walker ; and The ghost dance / Derek Walcott.
- Author
- Walcott, Derek.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR9272.9.W3 W35 2002g | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Walcott, Derek.
- Description
- 246 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Walker, first performed in 1992 and revived (in a revised version) in 2001, is named for David Walker, the nineteenth-century black abolitionist from Boston who advocated violent revolt against slavery and galvanized his generation. In Walcott's hands he is a classical hero, a political leader who is also a poet.".
- "The Ghost Dance takes place on a cold winter's day in Dakota, when Kicking Bear brings news of a rebellion to a white widow named Catherine Weldon; when the alarm seeps into the tiny fort nearby, its mixed company splinters apart in the face of the perceived threat. First performed in 1989, it is a parable of American life at a crossroads, drawn from a story with a historical conclusion: Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents."--BOOK JACKET.
- ISBN
- 0374528144
- LCCN
- 2002101069
- OCLC
- ocm50332940
- SCSB-4307022
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries