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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...texts written, respectively, by Ntozake Shange, Paule Marshall, and Alice Walker...protagonists of Paule Marshall, Ntozake Shange, and Alice Walker dance, these...The...
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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 » Read Now
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") » Read Now
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...
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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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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") » Read Now
by Saadi A. Simawe. 276 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

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

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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") » Read Now
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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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") » Read Now
by Jose David Saldidvar. 214 pgs.

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...Charleston, South Carolina: Ntozake Shanges Sassafrass, Cypress Indigo...Louise Pratt, Rosaura Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, and Lois Parkinson Zamora are...Marquez, Rolando...
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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") » Read Now
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...
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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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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") » Read Now
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...
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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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Women Playwrights of Diversity: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook ("Ntozake Shange (1948-)" begins on p. 302) » Read Now
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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Dictionary of the Black Theatre: Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Selected Harlem Theatre ("Shange, Ntozake (1948-)" begins on p. 248) » Read Now
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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Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays: A Biographical Directory and Dramatic Index ("Shange, Ntozake (Paulette Williams)" begins on p. 417) » Read Now
by Bernard L. Peterson Jr. 630 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

"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