Oedipus meets the Haitian Revolution, with a talking severed head thrown into boot, in "Le Mulatre" by Victor Sejour, New Orleans' (and America's) first African-American fiction writer.  This short story is an excellent reason to brush off your French.



http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/sejour/sejour--mulatre.html



Oh, we've found an English translation to link to for those who somehow missed learning French.













http://www.artelista.com/prints/scala/big/7/WH18384m.jpg