Ntozake Shange

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Dancing out of Form, Dancing into Self: Genre and Metaphor in Marshall, Shange, and Walker, in MELUS
by Barbara Frey Waxman. 16 pgs.

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Nonverbal Theatrical Elements in Ntozake Shange's for Colored Girls ... and Intissar Abdel-Fatah's Makhadet El-Kohl, in Comparative Drama
by Dalia El-Shayal. 17 pgs.

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Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama (Chap. 6 "Ntozake Shange: The Vengeance of Difference, or the Gender of Black Cultural Identity")
by Tejumola Olaniyan. 196 pgs.

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This original work redefines and broadens our understanding of the drama of the English-speaking African diaspora. Looking closely at the work of Amiri Baraka, Nobel prize-winners Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott, and Ntozake Shange, the author contends that the refashioning of the collective cultural self in black drama originates from the complex intersection of three discourses: Eurocentric, Afrocentric, and Post-Afrocentric. From blackface minstrelsy to the Trinidad Carnival, from the Black Aesthetic to the South African Black Consciousness theatres and the scholarly debate on the (non)existence of African drama, Olaniyan cogently maps the terrains of a cultural struggle and underscores a peculiar situation in which the inferiorization of black performance forms is most often a shorthand for subordinating black culture and corporeality. Drawing on insights from contemporary theory and cultural studies, and offering detailed readings of the above writers, Olaniyan shows how they occupy the interface between the Afrocentric and a liberating Post-Afrocentric space where black theatrical-cultural difference could be envisioned as a site of multiple articulations: race, class, gender, genre, and language.

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Scars of Conquest/ Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

I: Contingent "Origins"

1: Agones: the Constitution of a Practice

2: Difference, Differently

II: Inventing Cultural Identities

3: Wole Soyinka: "Race Retrieval" and Cultural Self-Apprehension

4: Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka: the Motion of History

5: Derek Walcott: Islands of History at a Rendezvous with a Muse

6: Ntozake Shange: the Vengeance of Difference, or the Gender of Black Cultural Identity

7: Subjectivities and Institutions

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison (Chap. 7 "Shange and Her Three Sisters 'Sing a Liberation Song': Variations on the Orphic Theme")
by Saadi A. Simawe. 276 pgs.

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This text explores how music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its Orphic, magical power to unsettle oppressive realities, to liberate the soul and to create, at least temporarily, a medium of freedom.

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Acknowledgments

Series Editor’s Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: Singing the Unsayable

Chapter 2: Claude Mckay

Works Cited

Chapter 3: Black Moves, White Ways, Every Body’s Blues

Chapter 4: Black and Blue

Chapter 5: That Old Black Magic?

Chapter 6: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

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Chapter 7: Shange and Her Three Sisters “sing a Liberation Song”

Works Cited

Chapter 8: Nathaniel Mackey’s Unit Structures

Works Cited

Chapter 9: Shamans of Song

Index of Names
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Black American Women Poets and Dramatists ("Ntozake Shange: B. 1948" begins on p. 204)
by Harold Bloom. 247 pgs.

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Black American Women Poets and Dramatists

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User's Guide

The Life of the Author

Introduction

Maya Angelou B. 1928

Gwendolyn Brooks B. 1917

Alice Childress 1920-1994

Lucille Clifton B. 1936

Rita Dove B. 1952

Nikki Giovanni B. 1943

Lorraine Hansberry 1930-1965

Frances E. W. Harper C. 1825-1911

Georgia Douglas Johnson 1886-1966

June Jordan B. 1936

Audre Lorde 1934-1992

Thylias Moss B. 1954

Carolyn M. Rodgers B. 1945

Sonia Sanchez B. 1934

Ntozake Shange B. 1948

Margaret Walker B. 1915

Phillis Wheatley C. 1753-1784
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Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature (Chap. 3 "A Woman's Art; a Woman's Craft: The Self in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo")
by Janice Lee Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp. 268 pgs.

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Edited collection of essays examining the fiction of contemporary Africana women including Ama Ata Aidoo, Shirley Anne Williams, Ntozake Shange, Flora Nwapa, Maryse Conde, Elizabeth Nunez Harrell, Jamaica Kinkaid and others.

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Foreword

Introduction

Part 1 A Birthing of Self

1 Psychic Rage and Response The Enslaved and the Enslaver In Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose

2 Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation The Climacteric as Seen in Novels By Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall

3 A Woman's Art; a Woman's Craft The Self in Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, Cypress, and Indigo

4 Coming Home to Herself Autonomy and Self-Conversion In Flora Nwapa's One is Enough

Part 2 Relationships: Mothering, Marrying, Mistressing, and Women to Women Disengaging the Family Romance

5 When Difference is Not the Dilemma The Black Woman Couple In African American Women's Fiction

6 "Devouring Gods" And "Sacrificial Animals" The Male-Female Relationship In Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a Love Story

7 Snapshots of Childhood Life In Jamaica Kincaid's Fiction

8 Fire and Ice The Socioeconomics of Romantic Love In When Rocks Dance by Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell

Part 3 War on All Fronts Race, Class, Sex, Age, and Nationality

9 Agents of Pain and Redemption In Sapphire's Push

10 Romantic Love and the Individual In Novels by Mariama Bâ, Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head

11 The Politics of Exile Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy

12 Sense Make Befoh Book" Grenadian Popular Culture and the Rhetoric of Revolution In Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of Forgetting

Part 4 Invention and Convention Womanist Gazes on Literary and Critical Traditions

13 Meditations on Her/Story Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem And the Slave Narrative Tradition

14 Guyana's Historical Sociology and The Novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols

15 Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism

16 "A Girl Marries a Monkey" The Folktale as an Expression of Value And Change in Society

17 Revolutionary Brilliance The Afrofemcentric Aesthetic

Contributors

Index
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The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (Chap. 4 "The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina: Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo")
by Jose David Saldidvar. 214 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

I: Metahistory And Dependency

1: The Dialectics of Our America

2: Squeezed by the Banana Company

3: Chicano Border Narratives As Cultural Critique

II: Magical Narratives

4: The Real and the Marvelous In Charleston, South Carolina

5: The Hybridity of Culture In Arturo Lslas's the Rain God

III: Caliban And Resistance Cultures

6: The School of Caliban

Afterword: Postcolonial Borders, Dissent, And The Politics of the Possible

Notes

References

Index

About the Author
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Language and Literature in the African American Imagination (Chap. 12 "From Nice Colored Girl to Womanist: An Exploration of Development in Ntozake Shange's Writings")
by Carol Blackshire-Belay. 214 pgs.

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Drawing together scholars from communication, literature, philosophy, linguistics, and other fields, this edited collection examines the current thinking on African American literature and language. Some of the most significant writers and thinkers in the field have contributed their views on all major aspects of the topic. The widespread debate over the canon in American literature, the issue of cultural diversity, and the need to have books with critical inquiry into African American culture make this collection suitable for scholars and students in diverse fields.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies

Copyright Acknowledgments

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Part 1 The Afrocentric Imagination: Theory and Analysis

1: Afrocentricity and Literary Theory: The Maturing Imagination

2: Locating a Text: Implications of Afrocentric Theory

3: Refusing to Be Boxed in: Sonia Sanchez's Transformation of the Haiku Form

4: Reassessing African American Literature through an Afrocentric Paradigm: Zora N. Hurston and James Baldwin

Part II Language Realities: Studies in Modern Societies

5: Cultural and Linguistic Transitions: The Comparative Case of African Americans and Ethnic Minorities in Germany

6: African Languages in the African American Experience

7: Kitchen Table Talk: J. California Cooper's Use of Nommo--Female Bonding and Transcendence

Part III Literary Analysis: Style and Substance

8: Dilemma of the Dutiful Servant: The Poetry of Jupiter Hammon

9: The Blue/Black Poetics of Sonia Sanchez

10: Afrocentric Aesthetics in Selected Harlem Renaissance Poetry

Part IV Reflective Designs in Literary Works

11: Folk Idiom in the Literary Expression of Two African American Authors: Rita Dove and Yuset Komunyakaa

12: From Nice Colored Girl to Womanist: An Exploration of Development in Ntozake Shange's Writings

13: De Jure Maurorum in Europa (On the Rights of Blacks in Europe): A Black Civil Rights Activist in Europe in the Eighteenth Century

Part V Afterword

14: The African American Imagination in Language and Literature: An Afterword

Index

About the Contributors
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Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America (Chap. 2 "Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange: Carving a Place for Themselves on the American Stage")
by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory. 168 pgs.

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"This is the first book-length study of black American women playwrights. It will be useful to scholars in the fields of black and women's literature and an excellent source of background reading in graduate and undergraduate courses on American women playwrights. The author's training as both a scholar and a playwright is evident in this book." Choice

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Copyright Acknowledgments

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

1: Black Theater Tradition and Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance

2: Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange: Carving a Place for Themselves on the American Stage

NOTES

3: Tonal Form: Symbols as Shapers of Theater of Struggle""

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4: Structural Form: African American Initiation and Survival Rituals

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5: Mirroring the Dark and Beautiful Warriors: Images of Blacks

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6: The African Continuum: The Progeny in the New World

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Afterword

NOTE

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Women Playwrights of Diversity: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook ("Ntozake Shange (1948-)" begins on p. 302)
by Jane T. Peterson, Suzanne Bennett. 402 pgs.

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Includes biographical sketches, play synopses, production histories, and bibliographical information for more than 80 contemporary women playwrights who present African American, Latina, Asian American, and lesbian perpectives.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Challenges of Diversity

The Sista Masses (1970s-1990s): African American Women Playwrights

Brave, Bold, and Poetic: The New Generation of Asian American Women Playwrights

Beyond the Festival Latino: (Re)Defining Latina Drama for the Mainstage

Lesbian Playwrights: Diverse Interests, Identities, and Styles

PLAYWRIGHTS

Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro

Claudia Allen

Lynne Alvarez

Jane Anderson

Valetta Anderson

Janis Astor Del Valle

Jeannie Barroga

Martha Boesing

Claire Chafee

Jane Chambers

Eugenie Chan

Denise ChÁvez

Theresa Chavez

Kitty Chen

Pearl Cleage

Kathleen Collins

Kia Corthron (1961- )

Clare Coss

Migdalia Cruz

Linda Faigao-Hall

Evelina Fernandez (1954- )

Five Lesbian Brothers (fl. 1989- )

Maria Irene Fornes (1930- )

J. E. Franklin

Terry Galloway

Terry Garner

P. J. Gibson

Gloria Gonzalez (1940- )

Silvia Gonzalez S. (1958- )

Judy Grahn (1940- )

Jessica Hagedorn

Wendy Hammond

Kim Hines

Endesha Ida Mae Holland

Velina Hasu Houston

Holly Hughes

Naomi Iizuka

Marsha A. Jackson

Mercilee M. (lee) Jenkins

Julie Jensen

Michael Angel Johnson

Karen Jones-Meadows

June Jordan

Honour Kane

Adrienne Kennedy

Susan Kim

Tina Landau

Cherylene Lee

Lisa Loomer

Josefina LÓpez

Nikki Nojima Louis

Lynn Martin

Robbie Mccauley

Cassandra Medley

Marlane Meyer

Susan Miller (1944- )

Chiori Miyagawa (1961- )

CherrÍe Moraga (1952- )

Lesli-Jo Morizono

Phyllis Nagy

Lynn Nottage

Madeleine Olnek

Monica Palacios

Suzan-Lori Parks

Estela Portillo-Trambley

Dolores Prida

Aishah Rahman (1937- )

Sandra Rodgers (1956- )

Kate Moira Ryan (1966- )

Milcha Sanchez-Scott

Joan Schenkar

Ntozake Shange

Anna Deavere Smith

Beverly Smith-Dawson

Diana Son

Split Britches

Caridad Svich

Regina Taylor

Carmelita Tropicana

Alice Tuan

Edit Villarreal

Paula Vogel

Lucy Wang

Cheryl L. West

Elizabeth Wong

Charlayne Woodard

Marian

Wakako Yamauchi

Shay Youngblood

Appendix A Playwrights by Cultural/Ethnic Grouping

Appendix B Additional Playwrights

Appendix C Nominators--Theatres

Appendix D Nominators--Individuals

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Authors
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Dictionary of the Black Theatre: Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Selected Harlem Theatre ("Shange, Ntozake (1948-)" begins on p. 248)
by Allen Woll. 362 pgs.

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Documentation for approximately three hundred shows is provided in this unique reference book. The title of each show is followed by its theatre, opening date, number of performances, complete list of creative personnel, cast credits, and, where appropriate, a list of the show's songs. Biographical entries are also included.

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

NOTES

INTRODUCTION: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BLACK THEATRE

Part 1: THE SHOWS

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Part II: PERSONALITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

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Appendix I: A CHRONOLOGY OF THE BLACK THEATRE

Appendix II: A DISCOGRAPHY OF THE BLACK THEATRE

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

NAME INDEX

PLAY AND FILM INDEX

SONG INDEX

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays: A Biographical Directory and Dramatic Index ("Shange, Ntozake (Paulette Williams)" begins on p. 417)
by Bernard L. Peterson Jr. 630 pgs.

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"This work provides a wealth of information on obscure and overlooked American playwrights as well as some famous ones; it will be a welcome addition for collections specializing in the theater arts." Reference Books Bulletin

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Abbreviations

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A Biographical Directory

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Appendex a Additional Playwrights Whose Scripts Are Located in Special Repositories

Appendix B Other Contemporary Black American Playwrights

Information Sources

Title Index

General Index

About the Author

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