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Ntozake Shange

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Betsey Brown

4,008 words, approx. 14 pages

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 ... Read more

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Ntozake Shange

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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, i... Read more

Ntozake Shange

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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 ... Read more

Ntozake Shange

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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. S... Read more