For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf
A Choreopoem
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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
… More »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.
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Imprint:
New York - Scribner
Pages:
96
Edition:
1st Scribner trade pbk ed
ISBN:
9781439186817, 1439186812, 9781451624205, 1451624204
Language:
English
Notes:
Includes two new poems and a reading group guide
Beginning, middles, and new beginnings-- a mandala for colored girls : musings and meditations on the occasion of the second publication / by Ntozake Shange -- [The poems] -- [Photographs of stage and screen performances] -- Reading group guide
Beginning, middles, and new beginnings-- a mandala for colored girls : musings and meditations on the occasion of the second publication / by Ntozake Shange -- [The poems] -- [Photographs of stage and screen performances] -- Reading group guide
Statement of responsibility:
Ntozake Shange
Characteristics:
96 p. :,ill. ;,22 cm.
Author (Original Script):
Shange, Ntozake
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Add a CommentEssential to black and minority studies, theater and performance art, and poetry. A moving set of stories and important in various contexts. A few really stand up to the test of time. An unconventional read, written differently than other plays. If you're open to the ideas it presents, you may even love it.
This book was amazing, I wasn't sure how i woudld enjoy this after watching the movie. Its not easy turning book into movie, much less poetry. Love it!! A must read.