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Margaret Garner: The Premiere Performances of Toni Morrison's Libretto
La Vinia Delois . Ed(S): Jennings
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hardcover. Editor(s): Jennings, La Vinia Delois. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC9; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
In January 1856, Margaret Garner—an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation—ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio. As slave catchers attempted to capture the fugitives in Cincinnati, Garner cut the throat of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to prevent her return to slavery. Toni Morrison first imaginatively treated Margaret Garner’s infanticide in her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Beloved (1987). In 2004, it became the subject of her libretto Margaret Garner: Opera in Two Acts, a lyrical text designed to be paired with music and sung operatically. Grammy Award–winning composer Richard Danielpour had tapped Morrison to write the libretto ... Read more
In January 1856, Margaret Garner—an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation—ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio. As slave catchers attempted to capture the fugitives in Cincinnati, Garner cut the throat of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to prevent her return to slavery. Toni Morrison first imaginatively treated Margaret Garner’s infanticide in her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Beloved (1987). In 2004, it became the subject of her libretto Margaret Garner: Opera in Two Acts, a lyrical text designed to be paired with music and sung operatically. Grammy Award–winning composer Richard Danielpour had tapped Morrison to write the libretto ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938677
SKU
V9780813938677
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About La Vinia Delois . Ed(S): Jennings
La Vinia Delois Jennings, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture at the University of Tennessee, is author of Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa.
Reviews for Margaret Garner: The Premiere Performances of Toni Morrison's Libretto
This study’s scope is impressive and engaging and opens a window not only on the genesis and development of the opera from a variety of standpoints but also on the politics of producing such a potentially ‘controversial’ piece on black history and black life in the United States. It is at once eclectic and single-minded, and offers insight not only ... Read more