For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem
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New York : Scribner, 2010.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
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Published
New York : Scribner, 2010.
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96 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English

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Featuring a new introduction, two new poems, and new photos from the film.
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"From it's inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning, for colored girls who have contemplated suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by the New Yorker for 'encompassing ... every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have contemplated suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed by generations to come. Here is the complete text with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world." -- cover page 4.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Shange, N. (2010). For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf: a choreopoem (Scribner trade paperback edition.). Scribner.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Shange, Ntozake. 2010. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem. Scribner.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Shange, Ntozake. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem Scribner, 2010.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Shange, Ntozake. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem Scribner trade paperback edition., Scribner, 2010.

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