num_pages: 64
description: The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traor and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Sellars 2009 production of Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse Barbary. Morrison gives voice and depth to the female characters letting them speak and sing in the fullness of their hearts. Desdemona is an extraordinary narrative of words music and song about Shakespeares doomed heroine who speaks from the grave about the traumas of race class gender war  and the transformative power of love. Toni Morrison transports one of the most iconic central and disturbing treatments of race in Western culture into the new realities and potential outcomes facing a rising generation of the 21st century.
language: English
title: Desdemona
publisher: Oberon Books