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In the foreword to Three Pieces (1981), Ntozake Shange calls herself "a poet or writer/rather than a playwright." In doing so, she seeks to free herself from the constraints of conventional theater. She believes that for too long "afro-americans in theat...

Ntozake Shange summed up the central concerns of her art when she explained to an interviewer, "bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't yet conquered." In works that blend poetry, music, and dance, Shange arti...

When African American writer Ntozake Shange's (born 1948) for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: a choreopoem appeared on the theater scene in New York City in 1975, it achieved immense popularity. Ten years later, it was...

Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange Born Paulette Williams in 1948, Ntozake Shange spent five years of her early adolescence in St. Louis, Missouri. Drawing on her personal background, Shange developed Betsey Brown into a novel about a black girl's coming of...

Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange is a novel which deals with very important matters concerning African-Americans. It tells the story of the Brown family who lived in St Louis in the 1950s. The eponymous character- Betsey is the oldest daughter of Greer...