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The darker face of the earth : a verse play in fourteen scenes / by Rita Dove.
- Title
- The darker face of the earth : a verse play in fourteen scenes / by Rita Dove.
- Author
- Dove, Rita
- Publication
- [Brownsville, OR] : Story Line Press, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Request in advance | PS3554.O884 D68 1994 | Off-site |
Details
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- Description
- 140, [4] pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Women plantation owners > Drama
- African Americans > Drama
- Mothers and sons > Drama
- Plantation life > Drama
- Enslaved persons > Drama
- Women plantation owners > South Carolina > Drama
- Mothers and sons > South Carolina > Drama
- Enslaved persons > South Carolina > Drama
- African Americans
- Mothers and sons
- Plantation life
- Enslaved persons
- Women plantation owners
- South Carolina > Drama
- South Carolina > History > 1775-1865 > Drama
- South Carolina
- English drama
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Presentation copies.
- Historical drama
- Drama
- Historical drama.
- Plays.
- Théâtre historique.
- Note
- Place of publication from title page verso.
- "The edition consists of 4,000 unsigned copies in wrappers, 250 numbered copies hardbound and signed by the author, and 26 copies lettered A-Z, hardbound and signed by the author and illustrator"--Colophon.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0934257744
- 9780934257749
- LCCN
- 93039433
- OCLC
- 29311813
- SCSB-12613133
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library