Ntozake Shange (1948–2018)
Auteur de for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
A propos de l'auteur
Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Linda Williams in Trenton, New Jersey on October 18, 1948. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1970 and a master's degree in American studies from the University of Southern California in 1973. She adopted her African name while in graduate afficher plus school. She wrote 15 plays, 19 collections of poetry, six novels, five children's books, and three essay collections. Her choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, opened on Broadway in 1976 and received an Obie Award. She also received an Obie in 1981 for her adaptation of Bertold Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. Her trilogy, Three Pieces, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry in 1981. She died on October 27, 2018 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Photo by Lilithcat
Séries
Œuvres de Ntozake Shange
for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf (1975) 1,817 exemplaires, 24 critiques
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes (Celebrating Black Women… (2019) 41 exemplaires, 10 critiques
lost in language & sound: or how i found my way to the arts:essays (2011) 29 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Beacon Best of 1999: Creative Writing by Women and Men of All Colors (Beacon Anthology) (1999) 24 exemplaires
Shange, Ntozake Archive 1 exemplaire
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Broadway Theatre Archive) [VHS] (2002) — Screenwriter — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 518 exemplaires
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Contributeur — 376 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Contributeur — 278 exemplaires, 1 critique
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contributeur — 181 exemplaires, 4 critiques
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contributeur — 162 exemplaires
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Contributeur — 116 exemplaires
Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women (1990) — Contributeur — 105 exemplaires
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1994) — Contributeur — 100 exemplaires
Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories (2001) — Introduction — 92 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired By Seven Shakespearean Sonnets (1998) — Contributeur — 69 exemplaires
She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets (1989) — Contributeur — 68 exemplaires
May Your Days Be Merry and Bright: Christmas Stories by Women (1988) — Contributeur — 52 exemplaires
Moon Marked and Touched by Sun: Plays by African-American Women (1993) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
A Way Out of No Way: Writing about Growing Up Black in America (1996) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1994) — Contributeur — 28 exemplaires
Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience (1996) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
The Little Magazine, v. 10, #1-2, Spring Summer 1976 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Little Magazine, v. 11, #1, Spring 1977 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Williams, Paulette Linda (birth name)
- Date de naissance
- 1948-10-18
- Date de décès
- 2018-10-27
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Trenton, New Jersey, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Bowie, Maryland, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Études
- Barnard College (BA|1970 - American Studies)
University of Southern California (MA|1973 - American Studies)
Trenton High School - Professions
- poet
playwright
novelist
teacher - Relations
- Bayeza, Ifa (sister)
- Prix et distinctions
- Guggenheim Foundation fellowship
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund fellowship
Pushcart Prize
Obie Award (1981)
Outer Critics Circle Award
AUDELCO Award (tout afficher 8)
NDEA fellow (1973)
Tony Award nominee (1976)
Membres
Critiques
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When… par Ntozake Shange
Poems on being black and a woman. Courage and female voice
This choreopoem is somewhere between a poetry collection and a play. I found the introduction in this new updated edition incredibly helpful, because while I feel like I have seen this book around and been aware of it for ages, I didn't really know anything about it. The introduction described how this grew from a collection of poems into a performance piece, and then how it was updated over time.
This book is that harrowing kind of beautiful, that gives dignity by bearing witness to people living through difficult/impossible situations, that recognizes people fighting for their joy where they can find it, people surviving how they can.
The introduction also places the work in time, from its very beginnings in the mid-seventies to the way audience reactions have changed over time, to the legacy it has created for itself.
If it isn't clear, while I would have enjoyed this collection without the introduction, that context and history increased my understanding/connection/enjoyment of this piece several-fold.
This is beautiful but difficult. Please check the content warnings.
Recommended for fans of The Vagina Monologues, Shonda Rhimes, The Color Purple… (plus d'informations)
This book is that harrowing kind of beautiful, that gives dignity by bearing witness to people living through difficult/impossible situations, that recognizes people fighting for their joy where they can find it, people surviving how they can.
The introduction also places the work in time, from its very beginnings in the mid-seventies to the way audience reactions have changed over time, to the legacy it has created for itself.
If it isn't clear, while I would have enjoyed this collection without the introduction, that context and history increased my understanding/connection/enjoyment of this piece several-fold.
This is beautiful but difficult. Please check the content warnings.
Recommended for fans of The Vagina Monologues, Shonda Rhimes, The Color Purple… (plus d'informations)
There is a reason a lot of this author's work here was unpublishied to this point. This is a very uneven compilation of over four hundred pages. Some selections are very good and some are not. I liked her poetry best but the plays and essays are many times lacking. Shange rejects traditional language and spelling (could becomes cd) ala Jack Kerowuac. Also, there is constant namedropping that has the editor working overtime with footnotes.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 36
- Aussi par
- 50
- Membres
- 4,968
- Popularité
- #5,043
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 167
- ISBN
- 172
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 10
