The darker face of the earth: a verse play in fourteen scenes

A play in verse about a white woman who has a black child by a slave in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and is the present U. S. poet laureate. This verse play, based on the story of Oedipus & placed within the context of slavery, is set on a plantation in ant...

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Main Author: Dove, Rita 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brownsville, OR Story Line Press 1994
Edition:1. American print.
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Summary:A play in verse about a white woman who has a black child by a slave in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and is the present U. S. poet laureate. This verse play, based on the story of Oedipus & placed within the context of slavery, is set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina.
Physical Description:140 S. Ill.
ISBN:0934257744

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