Ntozake Shange
Biographic Data
| ID | 1113158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ntozake Shange |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ntozake |
| FAMILY NAME | Shange |
| SIGNATURE | SHANGE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Girls Incorporated |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Interview with Ntozake Shange
An Interview with Ntozake Shange Marlon B. Ross (bio) and Ntozake Shange (bio) The interview was conducted on March 25, 2014, by phone between Charlottesville, VA, and Cheverly, MD. ROSS: What do you see as the lasting legacy of Baraka? SHANGE: The lasting legacy of Baraka. Cullud brilliance! Let’s see... one of the most important, I think, is his... his fifty-year dialogue with African American history. Even in the poetry there are references to…
For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Betsey Brown
Ntozake Shange
Is not so gd to be born a girl (I), otherwise i would think it odd to have rape prevention month (2)
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNtozake ShangeNtozake Shange is the author of the hit play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
Poetry
Unrecovered Losses/Black Theatre Traditions
sa poet in american theater/ i find dmost activity that takes place on our stages overwhelmingly shallow/ stilted & imitative, that is probably one of the reasons i insist on calling myself a poet or writer/ rather than a playwright/ i am interested solely in the poetry of a moment/ the emotional & aesthetic impact of a character or a line/ for too long now afro-americans in theatre have been duped by the same artificial aesthetics that plague ou…
The Black Scholar Reader's Forum on Black Male/Female Relationships
Black & White Two-Dimensional Planes
Oh she gotta head fulla hair
When Every Cloud is Drained of Sorrow and Anger
Poetry
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Unrecovered Losses/Black Theatre Traditions
sa poet in american theater/ i find dmost activity that takes place on our stages overwhelmingly shallow/ stilted & imitative, that is probably one of the reasons i insist on calling myself a poet or writer/ rather than a playwright/ i am interested solely in the poetry of a moment/ the emotional & aesthetic impact of a character or a line/ for too long now afro-americans in theatre have been duped by the same artificial aesthetics that plague ou…
Poetry
Oh she gotta head fulla hair
When Every Cloud is Drained of Sorrow and Anger
Unrecovered Losses/Black Theatre Traditions
sa poet in american theater/ i find dmost activity that takes place on our stages overwhelmingly shallow/ stilted & imitative, that is probably one of the reasons i insist on calling myself a poet or writer/ rather than a playwright/ i am interested solely in the poetry of a moment/ the emotional & aesthetic impact of a character or a line/ for too long now afro-americans in theatre have been duped by the same artificial aesthetics that plague ou…
The Black Scholar Reader's Forum on Black Male/Female Relationships
Black & White Two-Dimensional Planes
Poetry
Is not so gd to be born a girl (I), otherwise i would think it odd to have rape prevention month (2)
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNtozake ShangeNtozake Shange is the author of the hit play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
Ntozake Shange
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Betsey Brown
For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world
An Interview with Ntozake Shange
An Interview with Ntozake Shange Marlon B. Ross (bio) and Ntozake Shange (bio) The interview was conducted on March 25, 2014, by phone between Charlottesville, VA, and Cheverly, MD. ROSS: What do you see as the lasting legacy of Baraka? SHANGE: The lasting legacy of Baraka. Cullud brilliance! Let’s see... one of the most important, I think, is his... his fifty-year dialogue with African American history. Even in the poetry there are references to…
Art (7 works) · Literature (4 works) · Poetry (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Colored (3 works) · Optics (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Rainbow (3 works)