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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Brownsville, Or. : Story Line Press, 1994.Description: 140 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0934257744
  • 9780934257749
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 812/.54 20
LOC classification:
  • PS3554.O884 D68 1994
Other classification:
  • 18.06
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.

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.

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