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Ntozake Shange (/ ˌ ɛ n t oʊ ˈ z ɑː k i ˈ ʃ ɑː ŋ ɡ eɪ / EN-toh-ZAH-kee SHAHNG-Ê; [1] October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet. [2] As a Black feminist , she addressed issues relating to race and Black power in much of her work.
Shange returns to the idea of self-care consistently throughout her work, and often stresses its importance for black women in particular. In nappy edges , self-care is a remedy for personal struggles, but it is also a necessary reality of being the kind of black woman that she writes about struggling with abusive men, sexism, racism, and the ...
Pages in category "Works by Ntozake Shange" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. I.
spell #7, or spell #7: geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for technologically stressed third world people, is a choreopoem written for the stage by Ntozake Shange and first performed in 1979. [1] The story is about a group of black friends who are actors, musicians, and performers.
NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright, poet and author Ntozake Shange, whose most acclaimed theater piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the ...
[3] In this work, Shange actively addresses the past, and "goes well beyond mere listings of ingredients to show how various foods reflect the black experience from the slave ships to the present". [5] For example, Shange introduces the readers to "Afro-Atlantic foodways", [1] which is a type of food that came to being on slave ships.
Ntozake Shange’s iridescent choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf” is the story of Black women and their often-disregarded human experiences.
lost in language & sound: or how i found my way to the arts: essays (2011) is a collection of 25 personal essays written by Ntozake Shange. Explored in the collection are topics such as racism, sexism, jazz, dance, and writing. The essays function as autobiography, music and literary criticism, and social critique.