Ntozake Shange (1948–2018)
Auteur van for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
Over de 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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Fotografie: Photo by Lilithcat
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Werken van Ntozake Shange
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes (Celebrating Black Women… (2019) 41 exemplaren
The Beacon Best of 1999: Creative Writing by Women and Men of All Colors (Beacon Anthology) (1999) 22 exemplaren
Shange, Ntozake Archive 1 exemplaar
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Broadway Theatre Archive) [VHS] (2002) — Screenwriter — 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Williams, Paulette Linda (birth name)
- Geboortedatum
- 1948-10-18
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2018-10-27
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Trenton, New Jersey, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Bowie, Maryland, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Opleiding
- Barnard College (BA|1970 - American Studies)
University of Southern California (MA|1973 - American Studies)
Trenton High School - Beroepen
- poet
playwright
novelist
teacher - Relaties
- Bayeza, Ifa (sister)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Guggenheim Foundation fellowship
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund fellowship
Pushcart Prize
Obie Award (1981)
Outer Critics Circle Award
AUDELCO Award (toon alle 8)
NDEA fellow (1973)
Tony Award nominee (1976)
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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.
Kadir Nelson did the beautiful illustrations. A children's picture book that tackles a difficult and complicated topic. This book will elicit questions from students and get them thinking
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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… (meer)