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