Ntozake means "she who comes with her own things, and Shange
means "who walks like a lion."
For Colored Girls is a group of 20 poems for seven actors on the power
of black women to survive in the face of despair and pain. It ran for seven
months Off-Broadway in New York City, then moved to Broadway and was
subsequently produced throughout the United States and on television.
(Reference: The Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History http://www.blackhistory.eb.com/)
Lost in Language & Sound: Or How I Found My Way to the Arts:
Essays
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Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (December 6, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031220616X
ISBN-13: 978-0312206161
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
Avibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most important
muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange --language, music, and dance.
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated writer reflects on what it
means to be an artist, a woman, and a woman of color through a beautiful
combination of memoir and essay. She describes where her love for creative
forces began--in her childhood home, a place where imagination reigned and
boredom wasn't allowed. The essays tell stories ranging from the poignant
origin of her celebrated play "for colored girls" to why Shange needed to
deconstruct the English language to make that production work, from the
intensity of the female experience and the black experience as separate
entities to the difficulty of living both lives simultaneously; from the
intense love of jazz bestowed on her by her father to a similar obsession
with dance, which came from her mother. With deep sincerity, attention, and
her legendary candor, Shange's collection progresses from the public arena
to the private, gathering along the way the passions and insights of an
author who writes with "such exquisite care and beauty that anybody can
relate to her message" (Clive Barnes, The New York Times).
Liliane:
Resurrection of the Daughter
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (October 11, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312644108
ISBN-13: 978-0312644109
Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
"A standing ovation for Ntozake Shange. This is her finest work of fiction
so far."--Clarence Major, Washington Post
Book World
Through the polyphonic voices of Liliane Lincoln's childhood friends,
lovers, and conversations with her psychoanalyst, Ntozake Shange weaves the
life of a remarkable young woman. Liliane Lincoln is an artist who exposes
what she knows of herself to the world through her bold and colorful
artwork. Gradually, however, Liliane realizes that in order to survive, she
must come to terms with what she has kept hidden even from herself. Liliane
is extraordinary vision of a woman learning to be who she really is.
Some
Sing, Some Cry: A Novel
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by Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza
Hardcover: 576 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (September 14, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031219899X
ISBN-13: 978-0312198992
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.6 x 1.8 inches
Award-winning writer Ntozake Shange and real-life sister, award-winning playwright Ifa Bayeza achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this epic story of the Mayfield family. Opening dramatically at Sweet Tamarind, a rice and cotton plantation on an island off South Carolina's coast, we watch as recently emancipated Bette Mayfield says her goodbyes before fleeing for the mainland. With her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow, she heads to Charleston. There, they carve out lives for themselves as fortune-teller and seamstress. Dora will marry, the Mayfield line will grow, and we will follow them on an journey through the watershed events of America's troubled, vibrant history -- from Reconstruction to both World Wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam and the modern day. Shange and Bayeza give us a monumental story of a family and of America, of songs and why we have to sing them, of home and of heartbreak, of the past and of the future, bright and blazing ahead.
For Colored Girls [Blu-ray]
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Directored by Tyler Perry (In Theaters November 6th 2010)
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
SStudio: Lionsgate
Staring: Thandie Newton, Whoopi Goldberg, Kerry Washington, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad, Kimberly Elise, Macy Gray, Hill Harper and Omari Hardwick.
FOR COLORED GIRLS brings to the screen Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning play, a poetic exploration of what is to be of color and a female in this world.
For
Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
when the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem
Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Scribner (September 1, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684843269
ISBN-13: 978-0684843261
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
AALBC.com Best Selling Book
2011 - #1 Bestselling Book & #5 Best Selling eBook
2010 - #1 Bestselling Book & #3 Best Selling eBook
2000 - #5 Best-selling
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.
First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. 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.
 Ellington Was Not a StreetClick to order via Amazon By Ntozake Shange, Illustration by Kadir A. Nelson Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award ISBN: 0689828845 In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered there. These men of vision, brought to life in the majestic paintings of artist Kadir Nelson, lived at a time when the color of their skin dictated where they could live, what schools they could attend, and even where they could sit on a bus or in a movie theater. Yet in the face of this tremendous adversity, these dedicated souls and
others like them not only demonstrated the importance of Black culture in
America, but also helped issue in a movement that "changed the world." Their
lives and their works inspire us to this day, and serve as a guide to how we
approach the challenges of tomorrow. Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 80pp. AALBC.com Best-selling Book March 2001 Songs of love and urban tragedy from one of the preeminent African-American writers of our time. Shange's poems express the need to be felt and heard, to be necessary. In this love space, we all wear our desires, t-cells, and hearts on our sleeves and experience all that comes with wanting to get hold of life, or someone to love. |
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Illustrated by Michael Sporn (36 pages, picture book) Playwright, novelist, poet Ntozake Shange turns her attention to children’s literature, and offers readers a tough lesson on racism and hate crimes. What begins as a typical school day in Brooklyn, New York turns into a nightmare for grade-schooler Helene-Angel and her big brother, Mauricio, in this unusual children’s tale by award-winning playwright, novelist, and poet, Ntozake Shange. Loosely based on incidents that took place in the Bronx, where young black children were attacked by white gangs and spray-painted white, Whitewash is as emotionally compelling as any Shange work.
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 Sassafrass,
Cypress & IndigoClick to order via Amazon Publisher: St. Martin's Press, Inc. Date Published: January 1996 Format: Trade Paper My first Ntozake Shange novel. I was captivated by not only her sense of timing, characters and plot, but how she engaged all of the senses in telling this story of three sisters. A novel of experience. Shange made a believer out of me. ~Thumper, AALBC.com
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 Betsy
BrownClick to order via Amazon Format: Paperback, 207pp. The novelist presents "the life of a prosperous black family in St. Louis during 1957, the year of school desegregation. The story focuses on threegenerations of women, 13-year-old Betsey Brown and her mother and grandmother." |
Other titles by Ntozake Shange
The Black Book Robert Mapplethorpe, Ntozake Shange
Hardcover / Pub. Price: $50.00
Black Book: Miniture Ed. Robert Mapplethorpe, Ntozake Shange,
Paperback / Pub. Price: $10.95
A Daughter's Geography, Vol. 1
Paperback / Pub. Price: $8.95
I Live in Music Ntozake Shange, Linda Sunshine (Editor), Romare Bearden
(Illustrator)
Hardcover / Pub. Price: $15.95
Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter
Paperback / Pub. Price: $12.00
May Your Days Be Merry & Bright: And Other Christmas Stories by Women Susan
Koppelman, Ntozake Shange, Louisa May Alcott, Grace Paley
Mass Market Paperback / Pub. Price: $5.99
Nappy Edges
Paperback / Pub. Price: $10.95
Ntozake Shange: A Critical Study of the Plays Neal A. Lester, Ntozake Shange
Hardcover / Pub. Price: $53.00
Selected from Contemporary American Plays: An Anthology, Vol. 1 Jules Feiffer,
Ntozake Shange, Neil Simon, August Wilson, Horton Foote, Alfred Uhry,Marsha
Norman,Literacy Volunteers of New York City Sta (Editor)
Paperback / Pub. Price: $3.95
Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America Rebecca Carroll,Ntozake
Shange
Paperback / Pub. Price: $12.00
Three Pieces, Pbk Ed.
Paperback / Pub. Price: $10.95
Ridin' the Moon in Texas: Word Paintings
Paperback / Pub. Price: $9.95
Related Links
The Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
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