W&N Essentials #: For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow is Enuf

With an introduction by Bernardine Evaristo

W&N Essentials #: For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow is Enuf
Ntozake Shange, Bernadine Evaristo
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h198 x 129mm - 112pg
23 Jun 2022 UK
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9781474621984
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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.

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Totally extraordinary * New York Times * When I watched "for colored girls", I found it difficult to distinguish between her characters and the black women I knew. I had heard versions of Shange' s monologues before-whispered in my Brooklyn kitchen, late at night, far from the men who would be anatomized by their revelations. But Shange would have none of that intrigue. As one of her characters shouts, "i will raise my voice / & scream & holler / & break things & race the engine / & tell all yr secrets bout yrself to yr face. " That call undid something in me. It shattered the Negro propriety I knew and lived by. The force of Shange' s writing seemed to say, "Fuck the old rule of not airing your female business in front of colored men, white people, let alone the rest of the world. " You own the copyright on your life -- Hilton Als Encompassing, it seems, every feeling and experience a woman has ever had * New Yorker *
Ntozake Shange (1948-2018) was a poet, novelist, playwright, and performer. She wrote the Broadway-produced and Obie Award-winning FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, as well as numerous works of fiction, including SASSAFRAS, CYPRESS & INDIGO; BETSEY BROWN; and LILIANE.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781474621984
Published: 23 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Weight: 41g
Pages: 112

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