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Margaret Garner: The Premiere Performances of Toni Morrison's Libretto
248Overview
La Vinia Delois Jennings’s edited volume records key events, debates, and critical assessments of Morrison's success with Garner’s story as a libretto. It also includes essays by individuals who played central roles in bringing the opera to the stage and recovering Garner's story. The collection opens with a foreword by mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, for whom Danielpour composed the title role. The other contributors range from literary and opera scholars to specialists in American slavery studies and scholars of Toni Morrison's oeuvre. Their essays position her libretto within the African American operatic and libretto tradition, a tradition not fully known to performance scholars and heretofore unexamined.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780813938677 |
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Publisher: | University of Virginia Press |
Publication date: | 09/02/2016 |
Pages: | 248 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Foreword: Performing Margaret Garner Denyce Graves ix
Acknowledgments xxiii
Cast of Characters xxv
Synopsis Mary Lou Humphrey xxvii
Introduction: Writing Margaret Garner La Vinia Delois Jennings 1
Turning Words into Music: Toni Morrison's Libretto Margaret Garner and Its Musical Realization Michael Halliwell 9
"Dangerous Territory": The Margaret Garner Opera and the Margaret Garner Case Steven Weisenburger 39
Rendering Margaret Garner Accessible: The Preproduction Outreach Campaign Delores M. Walters 61
Who Speaks for Robert Garner? The Historical and Libretto Representations Carl B. Westmoreland 77
Confronting Margaret Garner in Cincinnati: The Opera, the Toni Morrison Society Conference, and the Public Debate Kristine Yohe 93
Haiti, the African-American Libretto Tradition, and Margaret Garner La Vinia Delois Jennings 116
Imagining Margaret Garner: Classical and Contemporary Texts and Intertexts Aimable Twagilimana 145
Margaret Garner and Appomattox: Performing Slavery/Rewriting Opera Helena Woodard 169
Notes on Contributors 189
Index 193