The darker face of the earth
Subtitle: a verse play in fourteen scenes
By: by Rita Dove.
Publisher: Story Line Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Brownsville, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Women plantation owners -- Drama; African Americans -- Drama; Mothers and sons -- Drama; Plantation life -- Drama; Slaves -- Drama; South Carolina -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
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.