For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.
"Dark phrases of womanhood of never havin been a girl, half-notes scattered without rhythm/no tune": Ntozake Shange's acclaimed theater piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf; signed by her
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.
SHANGE, Ntozake.
Item Number: 106023
Toronto and New York: Bantam Books, 1980.
Early printing of Ntozake Shange’s first work and most acclaimed theater piece, which premiered in 1976. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page. In near fine condition.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a society steeped in racism and sexism. The piece consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form Shange coined as the choreopoem.
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