SOURCE: "Distraught at Laughter: Monologue in Shange's Theatre Pieces," in Feminine Focus: New Women Playwrights, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 210-225.
In the following essay, Geis discusses Shange's use of language as an expression of African American women's experience in her performance pieces.
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