Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange November 1978 byBarnard College; digitally restored by Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dates: 1948 - 2018
Nationality: American
Literary Periods:
Confessional Period, 1960 -
Postwar Period, 1945 - 1999
Twentieth Century, 1990 - 1999
Literary Movements:
Feminist Writers, 1900 -
Postmodernism, 1963 -
Research and Criticism
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'For Colored Girls' Review: Ntozake Shange's Women Endure - New York Times
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Black Feminist Collectivity in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls - Barnard College
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Ntozake Shange (1995) by First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Call Number: Colby PS3569.H3324 Z77 1995ISBN: 0815303149
Primary Sources: Books
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Freedom's a-Callin' Me (2012) by Award-winning poet Ntozake Shange and artist Rod Brown reimagine the journeys of the brave men and women who made their way to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Fleeing on the Underground Railroad meant walking long distances; swimming across streams; hiding in abandoned shanties, swamps, and ditches, always on the run from slave trackers and their dogs. ah might get hungry ah may get tired good Lawd / ah may be free The Underground Railroad operated on secrecy and trust. But who could be trusted? There were free black and white men and women helping, risking their lives, too. Because freedom was worth any risk. Celebrated collaborators Ntozake Shange and Rod Brown pay tribute to the Underground Railroad, a universal story about the human need to be free. ah am a livin bein' & ah got to be freeCall Number: Bowdoin CH ShaFISBN: 9780061337437 -
Some Sing, Some Cry (2010) by Award-winning writer Ntozake Shange and real-life sister, award-winning playwright Ifa Bayeza achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this epic story of the Mayfield family. Opening dramatically at Sweet Tamarind, a rice and cotton plantation on an island off South Carolina's coast, we watch as recently emancipated Bette Mayfield says her goodbyes before fleeing for the mainland. With her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow, she heads to Charleston. There, they carve out livesfor themselves as fortune-teller and seamstress. Dora will marry, the Mayfield line will grow, and we will follow them on an journey through the watershed events of America's troubled, vibrant history--from Reconstruction to both World Wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam and the modern day. Shange and Bayeza give us a monumental story of a family and of America, of songs and why we have to sing them, of home and of heartbreak, of the past and of the future, bright and blazingahead.Call Number: Miller PS3569.H3324 S66 2010ISBN: 9780312198992 -
If I Can Cook, You Know God Can (1998) by Award-winning playwright, novelist, and poet Ntozake Shange is author of many acclaimed books, including Liliane and Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo. She is associate professor of English at Prairie View A&M University and lives in Houston, Texas.Call Number: Colby TX715 .S526 1998ISBN: 0807072400 -
Black Book (1986) by InBlack Book,Robert Mapplethorpe presents an astonishing photographic study of black men today. In their diversity, impact, subtlety, technical virtuosity, erotic appeal, and deep humanity, these photographs constitute a stunning celebration of the contemporary black male. "all my life they've been near me/these men" says Ntozake Shange in her Foreword, "i've been holdin your heart in/my hand since i was a child/cause i wanted what all you were/what all you are/now you're a man."Call Number: Bixler ART TR681.M4 M36 1986ISBN: 0312083025 -
The Sweet Breath of Life (2004) by Words and images come together in this inspiring collaboration between renowned poet Ntozake Shange and Kamoinge Inc., a group of acclaimed photographers whose work documents and celebrates the African-American experience.Collaborations between writers and photographers have provided African Americans with important focus for issues of identity and representation -- or lack thereof -- ever since the first publication of The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava in 1955. Frank Stewart, with his fellow photographers in Kamoinge Inc., and Ntozake Shange -- a longtime fan of photography -- were inspired by this landmark work and committed themselves to continuing the tradition and the artistic conversation into this first decade of this new millennium.In 1963, Roy DeCarava -- renowned photographer and first president of the Kamoinge Workshop -- set the aesthetic and philosophical tone of the group in response to biased representations of African Americans in the media. As image-makers, the Kamoinge members have sought to shed positive light on their subjects, and to demystify Black life in America. With stunning images from such acclaimed photographers as Anthony Barboza, Adger W. Cowans, Ming Smith Murray, andpoems by Ntozake Shange, one of the most accomplished writers of her time, The Sweet Breath of Life is a rich and thought-provoking book, destined to become a classic work of American photography and literature.Call Number: Colby E185.86 .S56 2004ISBN: 0743478975 -
Betsey Brown: a novel (1985) by A black girl, thirteen year old Betsey, encounters racial prejudice when she attends an all-white school.Call Number: Miller PS3569.H3324 B4 1985ISBN: 0312077270
