The darker face of the earth
a play
Completely rev. 2nd ed.
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Word Count
40,250 words, Guess
Page Count
161 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedarkerfaceofeart00dove
- ISBN-101885266197
- ISBN-139781885266194
- Goodreads2148819
- LibraryThing58720
Classifications
- DDC812/.54
- LCCPS3554.O884 D68 1996
- LCCPS3554.O884D68 1996
Description
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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- Drama
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