for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

About this book

First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.

Subjects

• 1000blackgirlbooks
• 18.06 anglo-american literature
• african american studies
• african american women
• american
• american drama (dramatic works by one author)
• american poetry
• contemporary women
• drama in english american writers 1945- texts
• english & college success -> english -> fiction
• general
• humanities -> performing arts -> general
• humanities -> theatre -> playwriting
• humanities -> theatre -> special topics
• new york times bestseller
• nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2010-11-14
• performing arts
• playwriting
• poetry
• poetry (poetic works by one author)
• social sciences -> social sciences -> ethnic studies
• storytelling