for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf | Essays and Criticism
- Departure From Conventional Drama
Hamilton, an instructor of English at Cary Academy, discusses Shange's departures from conventional drama.
- Initiation Into Womanhood
In the following review, Miller explores the structure and style of for colored girls.... She credits both Ntozake Shange and director Oz Scott with creating a stirring poetic enactment of a black girl's initiation into womanhood. Miller is an educator and critic who has worked extensively with women in the visual and performing arts.
- Positive Review
In the following excerpt, Clurman offers a positive review of for colored girls... declaring, "There is no black (or white) sentimentality here, no glamorizing of Harlem or any other ghetto existence; there is the eloquence of moral and sensory awareness couched in language powerful in common speech and a vocabulary both precise and soulfully felt". Highly regarded as a director, author, and longtime drama critic for the Nation, Clurman was an important contributor to the development of the modern American theater.
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