{"product_id":"margaret-garner-the-premiere-performances-of-toni-morrisons-libretto-hardcover","title":"Margaret Garner: The Premiere Performances of Toni Morrison's Libretto - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLa Vinia Delois Jennings\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e (1987). In 2004, it became the subject of her libretto \u003ci\u003eMargaret Garner: Opera in Two Acts, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 for his opera \u003ci\u003eMargaret Garner: A New American Opera, \u003c\/i\u003e which world premiered in Detroit in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLa 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa 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 \u003ci\u003eToni Morrison and the Idea of Africa.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757802848544,"sku":"9780813938677","price":102.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d2b1a9c96ac2899a99f30fe1c88048be.webp?v=1780112167","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/margaret-garner-the-premiere-performances-of-toni-morrisons-libretto-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}