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

Publication Date: Sep 01, 1997
List Price: $12.99
Format: Paperback, 80 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780684843261
Imprint: Scribner
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.

Description of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

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. The complete text and stage directions to Shange’s 1976 Broadway production is the moving statement of a talented black woman artist who sings the song of her own experience in a way that all can relate to it.



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