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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf Paperback - 1989

by Ntozake Shange


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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 means to be of color and female in the 20th century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompass(ing)...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had", for colored girls 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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  • Title For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
  • Author Ntozake Shange
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Rei
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Collier Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1989
  • ISBN 9780020248910 / 0020248911
  • Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 5.52 x 0.33 in (23.37 x 14.02 x 0.84 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects African American women
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88032633
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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