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Can I read For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf : a Choreopoem on EtoBox?

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf : a Choreopoem by Shange, Ntozake is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf : a Choreopoem about?

This revolutionary, award-winning play by a lauded playwright and poet is a fearless portrayal of the experiences of women of color—“extraordinary and wonderful...that anyone can relate to” (The New York Times) and continues to move and resonate with readers today more than ever.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.

Who reads For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf : a Choreopoem?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Shange, Ntozake
Publisher
Scribner Poetry
Published
1997
Language
EN
ISBN
9780613135528
Category
work of literary fiction
Subjects
Performing Arts, Literary Fiction, Fiction
Rating
4.27 / 5 (24,802 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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