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Turning words into music : Toni Morrison's libretto Margaret Garner and its musical realization / Michael Halliwell -- "Dangerous territory" : the Margaret Garner opera and the Margaret Garner case / Steven Weisenburger -- Rendering Margaret Garner accessible : the pre-production outreach campaign / Delores M. Walters -- Who speaks for Robert Garner? : the historical and libretto representations / Carl B. Westmoreland -- Confronting Margaret Garner in Cincinnati : the opera, the Toni Morrison Society conference, and the public debate / Kristine Yohe -- Haiti, the African-American libretto tradition, and Margaret Garner / La Vinia Delois Jennings -- Imagining Margaret Garner : classical and contemporary texts and intertexts / Aimable Twagilimana -- Margaret Garner and Appomattox : performing slavery, rewriting opera / Helena Woodard. |
