The darker face of the earth

a verse play in fourteen scenes

Author: Rita Dove
ISBN: 9780934257749

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.

Publisher: Story Line Press
Publish Date: 1994-06

Subjects: African Americans, Afro-Americans, Historical drama, Mothers and sons, Plantation life, Slaves, South Carolina, Women plantation owners, Drama / General, Drama / American

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