Shange, Ntozake (Vol. 8) - Shange, Ntozake 1948–
Shange, Ntozake 1948–
Shange is an American playwright whose drama reflects the plight of black women in America. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf can well be called staged poetry.
The fuss that is being made over For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf … is both ludicrous and pitiful. This is a sampling from a collection of prose and verse bits by a young black woman, Ntozake Shange….
For a long time, the Negro was, shockingly, the "invisible man" in our society. Now let him produce the slenderest work of quasi-art and the critics will carry on like disheveled maenads, vying to be first to perceive, proclaim and panegyrize the work and its maker. Out of enraptured pens pour white tributes to the supreme visibility of black art that is often no more visible than the Emperor's new clothes. Miss Shange's poetry is better than that of, say, Rod McKuen, and...
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