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For colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf (1975), Shange’s groundbreaking “choreopoem” play, combines poetry, music, and dance to explore relationships between black men and women. This work, considerably more experimental than Betsey Brown, established Shange’s international reputation.

Shange’s first novel, Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo (1985), uses prose, poetry, letters, and recipes to portray the lives of three sisters, each of them a different kind of artist, as they confront dilemmas relating to love,...

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