SHANGE, Ntozake.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.
New York: Macmillan , 1977.
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"Her own things that's my name": Ntozake Shange's acclaimed theater piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf; signed by her
First edition of Ntozake Shange's first work and most acclaimed theater piece, which premiered in 1976. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper with a quote from this work, "Ntozake Shange 'her own things' that's my name." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rubin Pfeffer. Jacket illustration by Paul Davis.
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.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.
$750.00
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