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Darker Face of The Earth : A Play SIGNED by Rita Dove

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Condition
Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
Country of Origin
United States
Signed By
Rita Dove
Signed
Yes
Book Series
Historical
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Fiction
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed
No
Vintage
Yes
California Prop 65 Warning
Does Not Apply
Personalize
No
Type
Novel
Literary Movement
Modernism
Era
1990s
Illustrator
Does Not Apply
Personalized
No
Personalization Instructions
Does Not Apply
ISBN
9781885266194
Book Title
Darker Face Of the Earth : a Play
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Item Length
9 in
Edition
21
Publication Year
1996
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.5 in
Author
Rita Dove
Features
Revised
Genre
Drama, Social Science
Topic
General, American / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
162 Pages
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Red Hen Press
ISBN-10
1885266197
ISBN-13
9781885266194
eBay Product ID (ePID)
233169

Product Key Features

Edition
21
Book Title
Darker Face Of the Earth : a Play
Number of Pages
162 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Topic
General, American / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Features
Revised
Genre
Drama, Social Science
Author
Rita Dove
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-026121
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
812/.54
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
"The Darker Face of the Earth," the first full-length play by Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove, is an Oedipal tragedy of interracial love set on a plantation in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The play has enjoyed staged readings on Broadway and full stage productions at the Kennedy Center and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This completely revised second edition coincided with the 1996 world premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Dramatic readings of "The Darker Face of the Earth" were initially staged on Broadway. "Poet Laureate Dove has done an amazing thing...her placement of the tale of Oedipus within the context of slavery and its open secret of miscegenation is brilliant, potent, and repercussive."-"Booklist" (starred review) ., ."a brooding and in some ways shocking piece that mixes Greek and African mythology and dramatic communication to reveal the tragedy of slavery."-"The Christian Science Monitor" "The play not only reminds the audience of history's relevance to the present day, but it also allows a deeper understanding of how slavery's cost continues to exact its cruel payments...The Darker Face of the Earth is an important play."-"World Literature Today" "Dove has created a drama in which black and white Americans are bound together not only by the chains of history, and not only by the necessity of sharing this land, but by ties of blood and passion as well."-"Detroit Free Press", The Darker Face of the Earth, the first full-length play by Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove, is an Oedipal tragedy of interracial love set on a plantation in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The play has enjoyed staged readings on Broadway and full stage productions at the Kennedy Center and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This completely revised second edition coincided with the 1996 world premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Dramatic readings of The Darker Face of the Earth were initially staged on Broadway. "Poet Laureate Dove has done an amazing thing...her placement of the tale of Oedipus within the context of slavery and its open secret of miscegenation is brilliant, potent, and repercussive."-Booklist (starred review) "...a brooding and in some ways shocking piece that mixes Greek and African mythology and dramatic communication to reveal the tragedy of slavery."-The Christian Science Monitor "The play not only reminds the audience of history's relevance to the present day, but it also allows a deeper understanding of how slavery's cost continues to exact its cruel payments...The Darker Face of the Earth is an important play."-World Literature Today "Dove has created a drama in which black and white Americans are bound together not only by the chains of history, and not only by the necessity of sharing this land, but by ties of blood and passion as well."-Detroit Free Press
LC Classification Number
PS3554.O884D68 1996

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