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.
Work Based On:
Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus
Publisher:
Story Line Press
Format:
Print book
Topic:
African diaspora, Enslaved peoples, and Play
Title:
The Darker Face of the Earth: A Verse Play
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type:
Play
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.
