For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

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From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
Book Details
Publisher:
Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
9780684843261
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
80
Authors:
Ntozake Shange
Published Date:
1997-09-01
Language:
English
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About Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange (1948–2018) was born Paulette Williams in Trenton, New Jersey, and worked as a poet, playwright, and novelist. Her choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, first performed in 1975 and staged on Broadway in 1976, was performed by an ensemble of seven women and received Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award nominations. She earned a BA from Barnard College and an MA from the University of Southern California. Her poetry collections include nappy edges (1978) and a daughter's geography (1983).

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