For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf - by Ntozake Shange (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From its inception in 1974 to its critical success on Broadway, this work has excited and inspired audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it means to be of color and female in the 20th century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>This revolutionary, award-winning play by a lauded playwright and poet is a fearless portrayal of the experiences of women of color--"extraordinary and wonderful...that anyone can relate to" (<i>The New York Times</i>) and continues to move and resonate with readers today more than ever.</b> <p/>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 <i>for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf</i> 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, <i>for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Celebrates the capacity to master pain and betrayals with wit, sister-sharing, reckless daring, and flight and forgetfulness if necessary. She celebrates most of all women's loyalties to women. -Toni Cade Bambara, <i>Ms.</i> Magazine<br><br>Extraordinary and wonderful...Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message. -<i>The New York Times</i><br><br>Ntozake Shange's extraordinary choreopoem...is a dramatic elegy for black women with an undercurrent message for everyone. Its theme is not sorrow...but courage. Its strength is its passion and its reality....An unforgettable collage of one woman's view of the women of her race, facing everything from rape to unrequited love....Wisdom and naivete go hand in hand. Wounds and dream intermingle; strong passions melt into simple courage. -<i>L.I. Press/Newhouse Newspapers</i><br><br>These poems and prose selections are...rich with the author's special voice: by turns bitter, funny, ironic, and savage; fiercely honest and personal. -<i>New York Post</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ntozake Shange (1948-2018) was a poet, novelist, playwright, and performer. She wrote the Broadway-produced and Obie Award-winning <i>for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf</i>, as well as numerous works of fiction, including <i>Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo; Betsey Brown</i>; and <i>Liliane</i>.
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