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The Haitian trilogy
[Henri Christophe, Drums and colours, The Haitian earth] / Derek
Walcott. - New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002.
- VIII-434 p. ; 21 cm. - (Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Paperbacks).
ISBN 0-374-52813-6
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DESCRIPTION : In the history plays that comprise
The Haitian Trilogy (Henri Christophe - Drums and Colours
- The Haytian Earth) 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.
In Henri Christophe and
The Haytian Earth, 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. Drums
and Colours, 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.
From Henri Christophe's
high style to the bracing vernacular of The Haytian Earth,
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.
❙ Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia in 1930. His Collected
Poems : 1948-1984 was published by Farrar, Straus and
Giroux in 1986 ; his subsequent works include the book-length
poem Omeros (1990), The Bounty (1997) and Tiepolo's
Hound (2000), illustrated with the poet's own paintings,
all FSG books. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
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| DEREK WALCOTT EN TRADUCTION FRANÇAISE | - « Le royaume du fruit-étoile » éd. bilingue, Saulxures : Circé, 1992
- « Heureux le voyageur »
éd. bilingue, Saulxures : Circé, 1993
- « Ti-Jean et ses
frères », Belfort : Circé, 1997
- « Raisins de mer »,
Essertines-sur-Rolle : Éd. Demoures, 1999
- « Rêve sur
la montagne au singe », Essertines-sur-Rolle :
Éd. Demoures, 2000
- « Une autre vie »,
Paris : Gallimard, 2002
- « Café
Martinique », Monaco : Éd. du Rocher,
2004
- « Le
chien de Tiepolo : poème à Camille Pissarro »,
Monaco : Éd. du Rocher, 2004
- « La lumière du monde » éd. bilingue, Belval : Circé, 2005
- « Paramin » peintures de Peter Doig, Arles : Actes Sud, 2016
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Allen-Paisant, « Théâtre dialectique
postcolonial : Aimé Césaire et Derek
Walcott », Paris : Classiques Garnier (Études
sur le théâtre et les arts de la scène, 7), 2017
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| mise-à-jour : 17 septembre 2017 |
Derek Walcott est né à Saint Lucia en 1930 ;
c'est là qu'il est mort le 17 mars 2017.
Poète et homme de théâtre, il avait reçu le Prix Nobel de littérature en 1992. |
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