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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429956666
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo written by Ntozake Shange and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. "A jubilant celebration of womanhood—as moving as the moon . . . pure magic." --Kansas City Star Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother before her. Having gone north to college, she is now living with other artists in Los Angeles and trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories and dreams. Cypress, the dancer, leaves home to find new ways of moving in the world. Indigo, the youngest, is still a child of Charleston-"too much of the south in her"-who lives in poetry and has the supreme gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world. Shange's rich and wondrous story of womanhood, art, and passionately-lived lives is written "with such exquisite care and beauty that anybody can relate to her message" (The New York Times).

For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439186812
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf written by Ntozake Shange and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "choreo-poem" reflecting the views of a black American woman about the women of her race

If I Can Cook/You Know God Can

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807021458
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book If I Can Cook/You Know God Can written by Ntozake Shange and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition available. Search ISBN 9780807021446. Acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange offers this delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a food of life that reflects the spirit and history of a people. With recipes such as "Cousin Eddie's Shark with Breadfruit" and "Collard Greens to Bring You Money," Shange instructs us in the nuances of a cuisine born on the slave ships of the Middle Passage, spiced by the jazz of Duke Ellington, and shared by all members of the African Diaspora. Rich with personal memories and historical insight, If I Can Cook/You Know God Can is a vivid story of the migration of a people, and the cuisine that marks their living legacy and celebration of taste.

Betsey Brown

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429956631
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Betsey Brown written by Ntozake Shange and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised as "exuberantly engaging" by the Los Angeles Times and a "beautiful, beautiful piece of writing" by the Houston Post, acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange brings to life the story of a young girl's awakening amidst her country's seismic growing pains in Betsey Brown. Set in St. Louis in 1957, the year of the Little Rock Nine, Shange's story reveals the prismatic effect of racism on an American child and her family. Seamlessly woven into this masterful portrait of an extended family is the story of Betsey's adolescence, the rush of first romance, and the sobering responsibilities of approaching adulthood.

Liliane

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312135591
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Liliane written by Ntozake Shange and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-09-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... A young black woman growing up in North America in the '60s and '70s [experiences]... the last moments of legal segregation in Mississippi and the beginnings of a class war in the black community of Queens " --Back cover.

Some Sing, Some Cry

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429959355
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Some Sing, Some Cry written by Ntozake Shange and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking and heartbreaking, this triumphant novel by two of America's most acclaimed storytellers follows a family of women from enslavement to the dawn of the twenty-first century. From Reconstruction to both world wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam, from spirituals and arias to torch songs and the blues, Some Sing, Some Cry brings to life the monumental story of one American family's journey from slavery into freedom, from country into city, from the past to the future, bright and blazing ahead. Real-life sisters, Ntozake Shange, award-winning author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and Ifa Bayeza, award-winning playwright of The Ballad of Emmett Till, achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this story of seven generations of women, and the men and music in their lives. Opening dramatically at a sprawling plantation just off the South Carolina coast, recently emancipated slave Bette Mayfield quickly says her goodbyes before fleeing for Charleston with her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow. She and Eudora carve out lives for themselves in the bustling port city as seamstress and fortune-teller. Eudora marries, the Mayfield lines grows and becomes an incredibly strong, musically gifted family, a family that is led, protected, and inspired by its women. Some Sing, Some Cry chronicles their astonishing passage through the watershed events of American history.

Nappy Edges

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312064242
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Nappy Edges written by Ntozake Shange and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1991-07-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-five poems grouped under five headings: "things i wd say," "love & other highways," "closets," " & she bleeds," and "she whispers with the unicorn."

Wild Beauty

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501169955
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Wild Beauty written by Ntozake Shange and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes “a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a moving bilingual collection of new and beloved poems. In this stirring collection of more than sixty original and selected poems in both English and Spanish, Ntozake Shange shares her utterly unique, unapologetic, and deeply emotional writing that has made her one of the most iconic literary figures of our time. With a clear, raw, and affecting voice, Shange draws from her experience as a feminist black woman in American to craft groundbreaking poetry about pain, beauty, and color. In the bestselling tradition of Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, Wild Beauty is more than a poetry collection; it is an exquisite call to action for a new generation of women, people of color, feminists, and activists to follow in the author’s footsteps in the pursuit of equality and understanding. As The New York Times raves, “Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message.”

lost in language & sound

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312206161
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book lost in language & sound written by Ntozake Shange and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most important muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange—language, music, and dance. In this deeply personal book, the celebrated writer reflects on what it means to be an artist, a woman, and a woman of color through a beautiful combination of memoir and essay. She describes where her love for creative forces began--in her childhood home, a place where imagination reigned and boredom wasn't allowed. The essays tell stories ranging from the poignant origin of her celebrated play "for colored girls" to why Shange needed to deconstruct the English language to make that production work, from the intensity of the female experience and the black experience as separate entities to the difficulty of living both lives simultaneously; from the intense love of jazz bestowed on her by her father to a similar obsession with dance, which came from her mother. With deep sincerity, attention, and her legendary candor, Shange's collection progresses from the public arena to the private, gathering along the way the passions and insights of an author who writes with “such exquisite care and beauty that anybody can relate to her message” (Clive Barnes, The New York Times).

Black Book

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312083021
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Black Book written by Robert Mapplethorpe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1986-12-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing photographic study of black men today from the acclaimed portrait photographer.

Daddy Says

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689830815
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Daddy Says written by Ntozake Shange and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo written by Ntozake Shange and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Minding the Body

Author : Patricia Foster
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307794741
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Minding the Body written by Patricia Foster and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mulitcultural anthology of fiction and non-fiction literary narratives which addresses the psychological and political aspects of a woman's body in today's culture. An important and much-needed book for women who seek to understand their bodies and find independent, imaginative ways to cope with aging, beauty expectations beauty expectations, and ethnic comparisons.

The Love Space Demands

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312076276
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book The Love Space Demands written by Ntozake Shange and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs of love and urban tragedy from one of the preeminent African-American writers of our time. Shange's poems express the need to be felt and heard, to be necessary. In this love space, we all wear our desires, t-cells, and hearts on our sleeves and experience all that comes with wanting to get hold of life, or someone to love.

A Daughter's Geography

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312063276
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book A Daughter's Geography written by Ntozake Shange and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noted poet, playwright, and novelist offers a collection of intensely personal poems intended to map out the geography of life and beauty that she would declare for her daughter

Black Women Writers at Work

Author : Claudia Tate
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642598550
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Black Women Writers at Work written by Claudia Tate and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” —Claudia Tate, from the introduction Long out-of-print, Black Women Writers At Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century. Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks. Alexis Deveaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Tillie Olson, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margret Walker, and Shirley Anne Williams, the book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after. Responding to questions about why and for whom they write, and how they perceive their responsibility to their work, to others, and to society, the featured playwrights, poets, novelists, and essayists provide a window into the connections between their lives and their art. Finally available for a new generation, this classic work has an urgent message for readers and writers today.

Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts

Author : Teresa N. Washington
Publisher : Oya's Tornado
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts written by Teresa N. Washington and published by Oya's Tornado. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Blazes a new trail in Africana literary criticism by providing an insight into the soul and spirit of Africana womanhood.” --Anthonia Kalu, The Ohio State University, author of Women, Literature, and Development in Africa This is the revised and expanded edition of Teresa N. Washington's groundbreaking book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature. In Yoruba language and culture, Aje signifies both a phenomenal spiritual power and the human beings who exercise that power. Aje is the birthright of Africana women who are revered as the Gods of Society. While Africana men can have Aje, its owners and controllers are Africana women. Because it is an African female power, and due to its invisibility, ubiquity, and profundity, Aje is often maligned as witchcraft. However, as Teresa N. Washington reveals in Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts, Aje is central to the Yoruba ethos, worldview, and cosmology. Not only is it essential to human creation and artistic creativity, but as a force of justice and retribution, Aje is vital to social harmony and balance. Washington analyzes forms, figures, and forces of Aje in the Yoruba world, in the Caribbean Islands, in Latin America, and in African America. Washington's research reveals that with the exile and enslavement of millions of Africans, Aje became a global force and an essential ally in organizing insurrections, soothing shattered souls, and reminding the dispossessed of their inherent divinity. From her in-depth exploration of Aje in Pan-African history and orature, Washington guides readers through rich analyses of the symbolic, methodological, and spiritual manifestations of Aje that are central to important works by Africana writers but are rarely elucidated by Western criticism. Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts includes innovative readings of works by many Africana writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Wole Soyinka, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ntozake Shange. This revised and expanded edition of Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts will appeal to scholars of Africana literature, African religion and philosophy, gender studies, and comparative literature. Devotees of Africana spiritual systems will find this book to be indispensable.