For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf: A Choreopoem (Scribner Classics)
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From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
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This book has touched me in ways I never thought it would. In a way, it perfectly describes the experiences every woman on this planet knows. Whether it is being unfairly treated, shut up by men, or also abused, this poem really opened my eyes to a lot of issues. I do not hear a lot of people talk about this book, but I would definitely recommend it to more people! Although I had to read this for a class at university, I would definitely also pick it up again in my free time!
Description
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
Book Information
Posts
This book has touched me in ways I never thought it would. In a way, it perfectly describes the experiences every woman on this planet knows. Whether it is being unfairly treated, shut up by men, or also abused, this poem really opened my eyes to a lot of issues. I do not hear a lot of people talk about this book, but I would definitely recommend it to more people! Although I had to read this for a class at university, I would definitely also pick it up again in my free time!