Ntozake Shange (1948–2018)

Autore di for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

36+ opere 4,917 membri 169 recensioni 10 preferito

Sull'Autore

Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Linda Williams in Trenton, New Jersey on October 18, 1948. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1970 and a master's degree in American studies from the University of Southern California in 1973. She adopted her African name while in graduate mostra altro school. She wrote 15 plays, 19 collections of poetry, six novels, five children's books, and three essay collections. Her choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, opened on Broadway in 1976 and received an Obie Award. She also received an Obie in 1981 for her adaptation of Bertold Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. Her trilogy, Three Pieces, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry in 1981. She died on October 27, 2018 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

Comprende i nomi: N. Shange, Ntozake Shang, Shange Ntozake, Ntazake Shange, Ntozake Shange, Ntosake Shange, Ntzoake Shange, Ntozake SWhange, Ntozake; Edited By Linda Sunshine Shange, Illustra

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Celebrating Black Women Writers

Opere di Ntozake Shange

Popolari Recenti

for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf (1975) 1,798 copie

Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo (1982) 572 copie

Ellington Was Not a Street (2004) 410 copie

Coretta Scott (2009) 316 copie

Betsey Brown (1985) 300 copie

Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter (1994) 236 copie

Some Sing, Some Cry (2010) 211 copie

nappy edges (1978) 127 copie

I Live in Music (1994) 110 copie

A Daughter's Geography (1983) 91 copie

Three Pieces (1981) 75 copie

If I Can Cook/You Know God Can (1998) 73 copie

We Troubled the Waters (2009) 68 copie

Float Like a Butterfly (2002) 56 copie

Freedom's a-Callin Me (2012) 53 copie

The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga (1991) 49 copie

Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems (2017) 44 copie

If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes (Celebrating Black Women… (2019) 41 copie

Ridin' the Moon in Texas: Word Paintings (1987) 41 copie

Whitewash (1890) 37 copie

Standing in the Shadows of Motown [2002 film] (2003) — Screenwriter — 33 copie

lost in language & sound: or how i found my way to the arts:essays (2011) 29 copie

The Sweet Breath of Life: A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family (2004) 27 copie

The Beacon Best of 1999: Creative Writing by Women and Men of All Colors (Beacon Anthology) (1999) 22 copie

Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange (2023) 20 copie

Daddy Says (2003) 13 copie

Plays: One (1992) 12 copie

Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance (2020) 12 copie

See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays and Accounts, 1976-1983 (1984) 11 copie

Spell 7: A theater piece in two acts (1981) 10 copie

From okra to greens : poems (1984) 6 copie

A Photograph Lovers in Motion (A Play) (1981) 5 copie

Some men (1988) 4 copie

Melissa & Smith (1976) 3 copie

Shange, Ntozake Archive 1 copia

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Broadway Theatre Archive) [VHS] (2002) — Screenwriter — 1 copia

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Opere correlate

Passing (1929) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 2,723 copie

Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 517 copie

Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Collaboratore — 373 copie

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Collaboratore — 276 copie

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Collaboratore — 176 copie

Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Collaboratore — 160 copie

Erotique Noire/Black Erotica (1991) — Collaboratore — 159 copie

Black Book (1980) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 132 copie

Black Women Writers at Work (1983) — Collaboratore — 129 copie

The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Collaboratore — 119 copie

Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Collaboratore — 116 copie

Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women (1988) — Collaboratore — 116 copie

Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women (1990) — Collaboratore — 104 copie

In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Collaboratore — 100 copie

Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories (2001) — Introduzione — 91 copie

Nine Plays by Black Women (1986) — Playwright — 86 copie

The Virago Book of Wicked Verse (1992) — Collaboratore — 82 copie

Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues (1993) — Collaboratore — 78 copie

Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (1657) — Collaboratore — 77 copie

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (2020) — Collaboratore — 75 copie

Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (2007) — Collaboratore — 75 copie

A Literary Christmas: Great Contemporary Christmas Stories (1992) — Collaboratore — 70 copie

Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired By Seven Shakespearean Sonnets (1998) — Collaboratore — 69 copie

She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets (1989) — Collaboratore — 68 copie

Racism and Sexism: An Integrated Study (1988) — Collaboratore — 62 copie

Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America (1997) — Prefazione — 61 copie

Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays (1992) — Collaboratore — 60 copie

Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry (1997) — Collaboratore — 56 copie

May Your Days Be Merry and Bright: Christmas Stories by Women (1988) — Collaboratore — 52 copie

Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry (1994) — Collaboratore — 46 copie

The Seasons of Women: An Anthology (1995) — Collaboratore — 46 copie

Midnight Birds: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers (1980) — Collaboratore — 46 copie

Moon Marked and Touched by Sun: Plays by African-American Women (1993) — Collaboratore — 44 copie

Modern and Contemporary Drama (1958) — Collaboratore — 43 copie

Prejudice: A Story Collection (1995) — Collaboratore — 42 copie

Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Collaboratore — 42 copie

Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America (2003) — Collaboratore — 40 copie

A Way Out of No Way: Writing about Growing Up Black in America (1996) — Collaboratore — 33 copie

I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love (1994) — Collaboratore — 33 copie

Catch the Fire!!! (1998) — Collaboratore — 29 copie

Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1994) — Collaboratore — 28 copie

Best American Plays: 8th Series, 1974-1982 (1983) — Collaboratore — 19 copie

Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Collaboratore — 18 copie

Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience (1996) — Collaboratore — 12 copie

Bittersweet (1998) — Collaboratore — 10 copie

The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Collaboratore — 9 copie

360: A Revolution of Black Poets (1998) — Collaboratore — 9 copie

Heresies 6: On Women and Violence (1978) — Collaboratore — 2 copie

The Little Magazine, v. 11, #1, Spring 1977 — Collaboratore — 1 copia

The Little Magazine, v. 10, #1-2, Spring Summer 1976 — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Etichette

Afro-americani (69) Afroamericano (468) Americano (67) Antologia (264) Biografia (76) classici (73) da leggere (492) diritti civili (55) donne (188) Dramma (117) Erotismo (49) Femminismo (86) Genere (67) Letteratura (131) Letteratura afroamericana (64) Letteratura afroamericana (60) Letteratura americana (110) letto (70) libro illustrato (87) Musica (50) Narrativa (718) Nero (40) non letto (41) Novecento (91) opera teatrale (60) opere teatrali (91) Poesia (695) racconti (141) razza (182) Razzismo (116) Rinascimento di Harlem (76) Romanzo (102) romanzo storico (43) Saggistica (131) Spiritualità (49) Stati Uniti d'America (50) Storia (67) studi femminili (73) Teatro (78) Umorismo (42)

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Informazioni generali

Altri nomi: Williams, Paulette Linda (birth name)
Data di nascita: 1948-10-18
Data di morte: 2018-10-27
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Luogo di morte: Bowie, Maryland, USA
Luogo di residenza: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Istruzione: Barnard College (BA|1970 - American Studies)
University of Southern California (MA|1973 - American Studies)
Trenton High School
Attività lavorative: poet
playwright
novelist
teacher
Relazioni: Bayeza, Ifa (sister)
Premi e riconoscimenti: Guggenheim Foundation fellowship
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund fellowship
Pushcart Prize
Obie Award (1981)
Outer Critics Circle Award
AUDELCO Award (mostra tutto 8)
NDEA fellow (1973)
Tony Award nominee (1976)

Utenti

Recensioni

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When… di Ntozake Shange

This choreopoem is somewhere between a poetry collection and a play. I found the introduction in this new updated edition incredibly helpful, because while I feel like I have seen this book around and been aware of it for ages, I didn't really know anything about it. The introduction described how this grew from a collection of poems into a performance piece, and then how it was updated over time.

This book is that harrowing kind of beautiful, that gives dignity by bearing witness to people living through difficult/impossible situations, that recognizes people fighting for their joy where they can find it, people surviving how they can.

The introduction also places the work in time, from its very beginnings in the mid-seventies to the way audience reactions have changed over time, to the legacy it has created for itself.

If it isn't clear, while I would have enjoyed this collection without the introduction, that context and history increased my understanding/connection/enjoyment of this piece several-fold.

This is beautiful but difficult. Please check the content warnings.

Recommended for fans of The Vagina Monologues, Shonda Rhimes, The Color Purple… (altro)

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greeniezona | 22 altre recensioni | Feb 22, 2024 |

Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of… di Ntozake Shange

There is a reason a lot of this author's work here was unpublishied to this point. This is a very uneven compilation of over four hundred pages. Some selections are very good and some are not. I liked her poetry best but the plays and essays are many times lacking. Shange rejects traditional language and spelling (could becomes cd) ala Jack Kerowuac. Also, there is constant namedropping that has the editor working overtime with footnotes.

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muddyboy | Nov 26, 2023 |

Freedom's a-Callin Me di Ntozake Shange

great book

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hcs_admin | 7 altre recensioni | Aug 18, 2023 |

Coretta Scott di Ntozake Shange

Kadir Nelson did the beautiful illustrations. A children's picture book that tackles a difficult and complicated topic. This book will elicit questions from students and get them thinking

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bklver | 28 altre recensioni | Jul 27, 2023 |

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