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

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<p>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 <i>for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf</i> has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by <i>The New Yorker</i> for encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,” <i>for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf</i> 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.</p> <p>The complete text and stage directions to Shange's 1976 Broadway production is the moving statement of a talented black woman artist who sings the song of her own experience in a way that all can relate to it. </p>

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Author

Ntozake Shange

Publisher

Scribner Poetry

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684843261

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, Drama, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.8 / 5 (1,550 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14