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women of color women of words ntozake shange for colored girls.... featured (pronounced en-to-zaki shong-gay) BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Williams in Trenton, New Jersey on October 18, 1948. In 1971 she changed her name to Ntozake Shange which means "she who comes with her own things" and "she who walks like a lion" in Xhosa, the Zulu language. Her father was an Air Force surgeon and her mother was an educator and a psychiatric social worker. The Williams were upper middle class African Americans whose love of the arts contributed to an intellectually stimulating childhood for Shange and her three siblings. Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Chuck Berry, and W. E. B. Du Bois were among the frequent guests at her parents' house. In 1966 Shange enrolled at Barnard College and separated from her husband, a law student. She attempted suicide several times. Nonetheless, she graduated cum laude in American Studies in 1970 and entered the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, where she earned a master's degree in American Studies in 1973. While living in California and teaching humanities and women's studies courses at Mills College in Oakland, the University of California Extension, and Sonoma State College, Shange began to associate with poets, teachers, performers, and black and white feminist writers who nurtured her talents. Shange and her friends began to perform their poetry, music, and dance in and around the San Francisco Area. Shange also danced with Halifu Osumare's company. Upon leaving the company she began collaborating with Paula Moss on the poetry, music, and dance that would become

22. EducETH: Shange, Ntozake information on ntozake shange and ntozake shange s books suitable for class reading, teaching information, teachers and students comments, requests. http://www.educeth.ch/english/readinglist/shangen/

Info Kontakt Suchen EducETH ... Grammar Shange, Ntozake: *1948 Her name is pronounced En-toe-ZAK-kay SHONG-gay Reading List Author Information Books with teaching and learning help Poems Requests Authors: A-K L-R S-Z Facts ... Can you help? Send your contributions and comments to: fischerh@inf.ethz.ch , Hans G. Fischer. Updated: 20. Apr 2003

23. 4 Women Writers: Ntozake Shange -- UMKC University Libraries: Online Exhibitions Maya Angelou. Zora Neale Hurston. ntozake shange. Alice Walker. Bibliography. Links. UMKC University Libraries. ntozake shange (1948 ) on October 18, 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey, ntozake shange http://www.umkc.edu/lib/exhibits/4-writers/shange.html

UMKC MERLIN Catalog Site Map Search Site ... Zora Neale Hurston Ntozake Shange Alice Walker Bibliography Links UMKC University Libraries Ntozake Shange (1948 - ) Born Paulette Williams on October 18, 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey, Ntozake Shange rose to national prominence following the 1975 production of her play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf: A Choreopoem . Known first for her work as an actress and playwright, Shange has also received acclaim over the past two decades for her work as a poet and novelist. For Colored Girls . . . has been lauded for its innovative use of music, dance, and poetry, as a central part of the dramatic narrative. Her "nonlinear" approach to dramatic structure has been compared by Sandra Richards to the work of playwrights such as Antonin Artaud, Amiri Baraka, and Bertolt Brecht (1991, p. 379). At the same time, the play has been controversial because of its frank discussion of social problems within the African-American community. Despite the controversy that greeted For Colored Girls . . .

24. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the rainbow is enuf. by ntozake shange. paperback. From its inception in California in 1974 to its Passionate and fearless, shange's words reveal what it is to be of http://depts.clackamas.cc.or.us/aawcc/cafe/c-girls.htm

for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange paperback 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. 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. BACK

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This is an archive page !!! Ntozake Shange Ntozake Shange is the only poet to have her poetry ( for colorled girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf ) translate successfully to Broadway. Short Eyes doesn't count because it's not a poem. Please do not mention Cats. She is the inventor of the choreopoem and is the world-class Energizer of the Word. BLOOD RHYTHMS-BLOOD CURRENTS-BLACK BLUE N STYLIN' PEOPLE OF WATTS To the Henry Holt Home Page

26. Ntozake Shange Mary. ntozake shange. ntozake means she who comes with her own things, and shange means who walks like a lion. . Other titles by ntozake shange. http://aalbc.com/authors/ntozake.htm

Up More Authors Children Book Authors Cartoonists ... AALBC.com Home NTOZAKE SHANGE (PAULETTE WILLIAMS) Photo Credit: Jeffrey L. St. Mary Ntozake Shange Ntozake means "she who comes with her own things, and Shange means "who walks like a lion." Shange attended Barnard College (B.A., 1970) and the University of Southern California (M.A., 1973). She taught humanities, women's studies, and Afro-American studies at California colleges from 1972 to 1975. During this period she also made public appearances as a dancer and reciter of poetry. Her 1975 theatre piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf quickly brought her fame. For Colored Girls is a group of 20 poems for seven actors on the power of black women to survive in the face of despair and pain. It ran for seven months Off-Broadway in New York City, then moved to Broadway and was subsequently produced throughout the United States and on television. (Reference: The Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History http://www.blackhistory.eb.com/

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Shange, Ntozake, Shange (right) in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf UPI/Corbis-Bettmann original name PAULETTE WILLIAMS (b. Oct. 18, 1948, Trenton, N.J., U.S.), African-American author of plays, poetry, and fiction noted for their feminist themes and racial and sexual anger. Shange attended Barnard College (B.A., 1970) and the University of Southern California (M.A., 1973). She taught humanities, women's studies, and Afro-American studies at California colleges from 1972 to 1975. During this period she also made public appearances as a dancer and reciter of poetry. Her 1975 theatre piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf quickly brought her fame. For Colored Girls is a group of 20 poems for seven actors on the power of black women to survive in the face of despair and pain. It ran for seven months Off-Broadway in New York City, then moved to Broadway and was subsequently produced throughout the United States and on television. Shange created a number of other theatre works that employed poetry, dance, and music while abandoning conventions of plot and character development. One of the most popular of these was her 1980 adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's

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Shange, Ntozake, Shange (right) in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf UPI/Corbis-Bettmann original name PAULETTE WILLIAMS (b. Oct. 18, 1948, Trenton, N.J., U.S.), African-American author of plays, poetry, and fiction noted for their feminist themes and racial and sexual anger. Shange attended Barnard College (B.A., 1970) and the University of Southern California (M.A., 1973). She taught humanities, women's studies, and Afro-American studies at California colleges from 1972 to 1975. During this period she also made public appearances as a dancer and reciter of poetry. Her 1975 theatre piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf quickly brought her fame. For Colored Girls is a group of 20 poems for seven actors on the power of black women to survive in the face of despair and pain. It ran for seven months Off-Broadway in New York City, then moved to Broadway and was subsequently produced throughout the United States and on television. Shange created a number of other theatre works that employed poetry, dance, and music while abandoning conventions of plot and character development. One of the most popular of these was her 1980 adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's

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CQHome Search CQ CQ Indexes CQ E-books ... creative Creative Quotations from . . . Ntozake Shange 1948-) born on Oct 3 US poet, playwright. She wrote the play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf," 1977; won Obie. Search millions of documents for Ntozake Shange Creative Hats Tshirts African Cichlids Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable. i found god in myself Where there is woman there is magic. make very personal very clear I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground. Published Sources for Quotations Above: F: In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997. R: a laying on of hands, "for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is end," 1977. A: In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997. N: In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.

31. Ntozake Shange - The Academy Of American Poets ntozake shange The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=148

32. Ntozake Shange - The Academy Of American Poets ntozake shange The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. Some pages also include RealAudio clips of the Poet, performance artist, playwright, and novelist ntozake shange was born Paulette Williams on October Digest Fund, and a Pushcart Prize. ntozake shange lives in Philadelphia. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=148

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34. African American Registry: Ntozake Shange, Author With Distiction! ntozake shange was born on this date in 1948. She is An AfricanAmerican Playwright, author, and educator. ntozake shange, author with distiction! http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1717/Ntozake_Shange_author_wi

Ntozake Shange, author with distiction! Home What Happened on Your Birthday? Search the Registry by Category ... Contact October 18 Ntozake Shange Ntozake Shange was born on this date in 1948. She is An African-American Playwright, author, and educator. Born Paulette Williams in Trenton, New Jersey to Paul T. Williams (namesake), a surgeon, and Eloise Williams, a psychiatric social worker and educator. She is the oldest of four children of an upper middle class family. In 1956, when she was five years old, her family moved to a then, racially segregated St. Louis, where she enjoyed music, dance, art, literature, and opera; though at a German-American school she suffered blatant racism as a part of the dawn of the Brown versus Board of Education decision. She was an avid reader of Jean Genet, Herman Melville, and Langston Hughes. She also came in contact with great musicians and singers like Dizzy Gillespie, Chuck Berry, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Josephine Baker, all friends of her parents. W.E.B. DuBois was also a family visitor. In 1961 she returned to New Jersey, completed high school and became increasingly aware of the inequities of the American society on Black females; five years later she enrolled at Bernard College. Soon after this she attempted suicide (more than once) after a recent separation from her law school husband and a deep sense of bitterness and alienation. Upon gathering herself she earned a bachelor's degree with honors in American studies from Barnard College in 1970, a master's degree in American studies from the University of Southern California in 1973. In 1971 she decided to take an African name: Ntozake means "she who comes with her own things, and Shange means, "who walks like a lion." This change reinforced her inner strength and to redirect her life. Shange has taught humanities, women's studies, and Afro-American studies from 1972-1975 at Sonoma State College, Mills College, and University of California Extension.

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magnum('heritage') Browse Africana Home Research Center Channels: Blackworld Heritage Lifestyle Movies and TV Music Books People Arts Funstuff Health and Beauty Services: Africana Box Office Radio Africana Political Action Center Open Source Talk Back Welcome Guest Sign In Register Home Encarta Africana > Shange, Ntozake Shange, Ntozake As prolific as she is provocative, Ntozake Shange pushes the limits of literary form as she questions the social and political limitations imposed on people of color, especially women and children. Inventing her own dramatic medium, Shange created the choreopoem, a combination of narrative text, dance, and music. Her music opens up as many avenues as possible to the exploration of the diverse experiences of the oppressed. Born Paulette Williams, the daughter of a surgeon and psychiatric social worker, Ntozake Shange spent her early years in Trenton, New Jersey in privileged circumstances. Her parents' friends, including Josephine Baker, Miles Davis, and W. E. B. Du Bois, provided a culturally-affirming black atmosphere. The family moved to St. Louis, Missouri when Shange was eight where, she was one of the first students to integrate a school. Depressed by a failed teenage marriage and the limitations she encountered as a talented black women, Shange attempted suicide several times during her years at Barnard College (1966-1970). She began a new chapter of her life during graduate study at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1973, when she changed her name to the Zulu words Ntozake, "she who comes with her own things" and Shange, "who walks like a lion." After taking an M.A. from the USC, Shange moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she taught women's studies and writing at area colleges and universities while performing her own poetry and dance. Her best known work

36. Literary Encyclopedia: Shange, Ntozake shange, ntozake. (1948 ). www.LitEncyc.com. Domain Literature. Poet, Playwright, Novelist. Active 1975 - in USA, North America. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4039

37. Literary Encyclopedia: List Works () 1. 7 Matches for shange, ntozake. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enough shange, ntozake. 1975. Sassafras - shange, ntozake. http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?aut=Shange, Ntozake&golist=true

38. 4 Women Writers: Bibliography -- UMKC University Libraries: Online Exhibitions shange, ntozake. Betsey Brown a novel. shange, ntozake. For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf a choreopoem. http://www.umkc.edu/lib/exhibits/4-writers/bibliography.html

UMKC MERLIN Catalog Site Map Search Site ... Alice Walker Bibliography Links 4 Women Writers: Bibliography The Miller Nichols Library includes a number of resources for the study of African-American literature, and for the study of the work of these four authors. Unless otherwise noted, the items below are available in the Miller Nichols Library. Items marked with an asterisk ( ) have been selected for display in the current exhibit. For further information on locating materials relevant to the study of African-American literature at Miller Nichols Library, please consult the Reference Guide to Ethnic Literature General Works Davis, Thadious M. and Trudier Harris, eds. Afro-American writers after 1955 : dramatists and prose writers . Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co. Gates, Henry Louis, ed. Bearing witness : selections from African-American autobiography in the twentieth century . New York : Pantheon Books, c1991. Glikin, Ronda.

39. OUSD > Urban Dreams Project >Ntozake Shange > Betsey Brown shange, ntozake *1948 by The English Page Author, Betsey Brown, Poems http//www.educeth.ch/english/readinglist/shangen/ (EducETH; ); http://www.urbandreamsproject.org/language_arts/extended/09/shange/

OUSD Urban Dreams Language Arts Extended Literature ... Grade 9 > Shange About this book BETSEY BROWN is an ambitious work. Its intention is to weave the stories of several people of the same family together around a time and place crucial in shaping their ideas and destinies. The novel unfolds through the growing pains of Betsey Brown (aged 13 3/4), the eldest female child in a brood belonging to Jane and Greer and living in a big old house in St Louis, USA. More... document.write('') Curriculum Resources Teacher's Guide http://www.holtzbrinckpublishers.com/images/Books/ TeachersGuides/ 0312134347TG.pdf (Holtzbrinck Publishers; document.write('') Betsey Brown Additional Material, Students' and Teachers' Comments on Reading 'Betsey Brown' http://www.educeth.ch/english/readinglist/shangen/ (EducETH; document.write('') About the author Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Williams in Trenton, New Jersey on October 18, 1948. In 1971 she changed her name to Ntozake Shange which means "she who comes with her own things" and "she who walks like a lion" in Xhosa, the Zulu language. Her father was an Air Force surgeon and her mother was an educator and a psychiatric social worker. The Williams were upper middle class African Americans whose love of the arts contributed to an intellectually stimulating childhood for Shange and her three siblings.

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