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Counter Omeros

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Walcott, Derek
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1990
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A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement -- and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
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Homer's Odyssey
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Poetry
Topic:
African diaspora, Caribbean, Fathers and sons, and Epic poetry
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2. The Darker Face of the Earth: A Verse Play

Creator / Contributor:
Dove, Rita
Date Created / Date Issued:
1994
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.
Work Based On:
Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus
Publisher:
Story Line Press
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Play
Topic:
African diaspora, Enslaved peoples, and Play
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

3. The Darker Face of the Earth: A Verse Play

Creator / Contributor:
Dove, Rita
Date Created / Date Issued:
1994
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.
Work Based On:
Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus
Publisher:
Story Line Press
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Play
Topic:
African diaspora, Enslaved peoples, and Play
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/