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1. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Creator / Contributor:
Vuong, Ocean
Date Created / Date Issued:
2016
Description:
A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty. "Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--And very human--subjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the fiercest hungers."--Publisher's description.
Work Based On:
Homer's Odyssey
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Poetry
Topic:
Asian American, LGBTQ, Fathers and sons, and 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
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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:
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4. Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey

Creator / Contributor:
Bearden, Romare, artist
Additional Contributor(s):
O'Meally, Robert G, author
Date Created / Date Issued:
2007
Description:
Catalog to accompany an exhibition with the same name held Nov. 13, 2007-Jan. 5, 2008 at DC Moore Gallery
Work Based On:
Homer's Odyssey
Publisher:
DC Moore Gallery
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Exhibition catalog
Topic:
African disapora and Fathers and sons
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5. Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey

Creator / Contributor:
Bearden, Romare, artist
Additional Contributor(s):
O'Meally, Robert G, author
Date Created / Date Issued:
2007
Description:
Catalog to accompany an exhibition with the same name held Nov. 13, 2007-Jan. 5, 2008 at DC Moore Gallery
Work Based On:
Homer's Odyssey
Publisher:
DC Moore Gallery
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Exhibition catalog
Topic:
African disapora and Fathers and sons
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6. Medea, Hippolytus, The Bacchae

Creator / Contributor:
Euripides
Additional Contributor(s):
Vellacott, Philip, translator and Ayrton, Michael, artist
Date Created / Date Issued:
431 BC
Date Copyrighted:
1967
Description:
184 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. Limited to 1500 copies and signed by the artist
Publisher:
Curwen Press
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Drama
Topic:
Tragedy, Women and death, and Play
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7. Oedipus Tyrannus

Creator / Contributor:
Sophocles
Additional Contributor(s):
Meineck, Peter, translator and Woodruff, Paul, translator
Alternative Title:
Oedipus Rex
Date Created / Date Issued:
c. 430 BC
Date Copyrighted:
2000
Publisher:
Hackett Publishing Company
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Play
Topic:
Tragedy, Fathers and sons, and Play
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8. The Odyssey

Creator / Contributor:
Homer
Additional Contributor(s):
Wilson, Emily, translator
Date Created / Date Issued:
c. 8th century BC.
Date Copyrighted:
2018
Description:
"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. "
Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Poetry
Topic:
Epic poetry and Fathers and sons
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9. Medea

Creator / Contributor:
Euripides
Additional Contributor(s):
Arnson Svarlien, Diane, translator
Date Created / Date Issued:
431 BC
Date Copyrighted:
2008
Description:
Contains the dramatic text for Euripides classic Greek tragedy, in which Medea plots revenge after she is betrayed by her husband and banished from her home; and features an introduction from Robin Mitchell-Boyask that provides background information on Euripides and Greek history.
Publisher:
Hackett Publishing Company
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Drama
Topic:
Tragedy, Women and death, and Play
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10. Antigone

Creator / Contributor:
Sophocles
Additional Contributor(s):
Woodruff, Paul, translator
Date Created / Date Issued:
c. 442 BC
Date Copyrighted:
2001
Description:
Woodruff's work with Peter Meineck makes this text one that is accessible to today's students and could be staged for modern audiences. Line notes printed at the bottom of the page bring a reader further quick assistance. . . .
Publisher:
Hackett Publishing Company
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Drama
Topic:
Tragedy, Women and death, and Play
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11. The Hungry Woman

Creator / Contributor:
Moraga, Cherríe
Date Created / Date Issued:
2001
Description:
"The Hungry Woman, grounded in the Medea legend and Mesoamerican mythology, reinvents the story of Aztlan in the "near future," visualizing a world in which the Chicano/a nation has won a living space but betrayed the principle of equality of the fighters for the revolution. Passionate, earthy, and tragic, full of heroism and villainy, the play calls on a new audience to deal with an imagined political reality."
Work Based On:
Euripides' Medea
Publisher:
West End Press
Language:
English and Español
Format:
Print book
Type:
Play
Topic:
Mexican American, LGBTQ, Aztec mythology, Tragedy, Women and death, and Play
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12. The Hungry Woman

Creator / Contributor:
Moraga, Cherríe
Date Created / Date Issued:
2001
Description:
"The Hungry Woman, grounded in the Medea legend and Mesoamerican mythology, reinvents the story of Aztlan in the "near future," visualizing a world in which the Chicano/a nation has won a living space but betrayed the principle of equality of the fighters for the revolution. Passionate, earthy, and tragic, full of heroism and villainy, the play calls on a new audience to deal with an imagined political reality."
Work Based On:
Euripides' Medea
Publisher:
West End Press
Language:
English and Español
Format:
Print book
Type:
Play
Topic:
Mexican American, LGBTQ, Aztec mythology, Tragedy, Women and death, and Play
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13. Omeros

Creator / Contributor:
Walcott, Derek
Date Created / Date Issued:
1990
Description:
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.
Work Based On:
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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14. Antígona González

Creator / Contributor:
Uribe Sánchez, Sara María
Additional Contributor(s):
Pluecker, John, translator
Date Created / Date Issued:
2016
Description:
Antígona González is the story of the search for a body, a specific body, one of the thousands of bodies lost in the war against drug trafficking that began more than a decade ago in Mexico. A woman, Antígona González, attempts to narrate the disappearance of Tadeo, her elder brother. She searches for her brother among the dead. San Fernando, Tamaulipas, appears to be the end of her search. But Sara Uribe’s book is also a palimpsest that rewrites and cowrites the juxtapositions and interweavings of all the other Antigones. From the foundational Antigone of Sophocles passing through Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona furiosa, Leopoldo Marechal’s Antígona Vélez, María Zambrano’s La tumba de Antígona all the way to Antigone’s Claim by Judith Butler. And this book’s writing machine includes testimonies from family members of the victims and fragments and fragments from news stories that provide accounts of all these absences, all the bodies that we are missing.
Work Based On:
Sophocles' Antigone
Publisher:
Les Figues Press
Language:
English and Español
Format:
Print book
Type:
Poetry
Topic:
Latin America, Tragedy, Women and death, Missing persons, and Play
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15. The Odyssey

Creator / Contributor:
Homer
Additional Contributor(s):
Pope, Alexander, translator, Shankman, Steven, editor, and Lawrence, Avery, artist
Alternative Title:
Ὀδύσσεια
Date Created / Date Issued:
c. 8th century BC
Date Copyrighted:
2009
Description:
1 of 2 volumes in set of Alexander Pope translations. English translation by Alexander Pope. Greek text edited by Barry B. Powell; English translation edited by Steven Shurtleff; catalog entries researched and written by William Frank. "Enhanced by over fifty original art renderings in the Greek vase styles"--Jacket. Issued in slipcase. Includes bibliographical references.
Publisher:
Chester River Press
Language:
English and Ancient Greek
Format:
Print book
Type:
Poetry
Topic:
Epic poetry and Fathers and sons
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