Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange style of writing and title makes her poems more relatable. Imagery is used to express the trials and tribulations African American women go through. Symbolism and characterization is used to make the women in the play transparent. Shange’s theme of self-awareness and inner strength encourages black women to accept themselves- flaws and all. Ntozake Shange’s use of literary elements in the choreopoem “For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf” not only…

Author Ntozake Shange presented a choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf with a colorful vast amount of voices from women. A rainbow of stories offers a vivid image of external conflicts. The scenes are driven by emotional rhythmic movements and colorful backgrounds. The rhythmic movements and themes are interpreted by the journey of identity, rape, abortion, sexuality, and darkness of the colored girls. The rhythmic movements of the rainbow of women,…

The movie For Colored Girls (2010) , is based on Ntozake Shange’s play known as For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. It was performed in 1975. Then it is written for the screen , produced and directed by Tyler Perry. This movie is an American drama. It represents the lives of nine African – American women, unlike the play that dealt only with seven women. The movie sheds light on a feminist era. Each character deals with a different personal struggle. For…

African American literature has been sustained by the work of Black women. Their works have center the Black community and the era they were in. From Phyllis Wheatley in the slavery and freedom era to Lorraine Hansberry during the Civil Rights Movement, Black women have a significant role in the literature of the time. As the United States transitioned into the 1970s, a new wave African American literature was born: the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance. Wanting to alter the depictions of Black…

Why am I not applying for law school? When I graduated high school and on up to my third semester of college, I was a Political Science major determined to go to law school. I even created a vision board with the list of school that I was going to apply to. Now, three years and three major changes later, I find myself applying for a Masters of Arts in English at Wayne State University. English began to alter my plans during my first major specific class. Prior to my Children’s Literature class,…

that countered received wisdom were powerful examples to Parks” (Geis, Suzan-Lori Parks). Although they were primarily Caucasian, Suzan also focused on African-American authors and playwrights, such as Zora Neale Hurston, Adrienne Kennedy, and Ntozake Shange. Hurston’s career in anthropology and research in African mythology and vernacular peaked Parks’s fascination with mimicking Zora’s own work in saving and recycling history for herself. As a result, Suzan began using those same techniques to…

After reading the stage play “For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf,” by Ntozake Shange and watching the film by Tyler Perry I will discuss relationships. Relationships during the present time are what I feel need the most focus. Relationships between a man and a woman as well as relationships between women ( African-American) and how they treat each other depending on their social class was just ridiculous. In both the movie and the stage play the lady in Green…

The writings of the black authors reveal their pains as a black. The 1993 Nobel Literature Laureate, Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. She writes for black women to reveal the pains of Afro-American woman as a black and female. Her works challenge the stereotypes present in writings by and about black women. She projects racism and gender discrimination in her novels. Feminism in Toni Morrison’s novels is grounded upon “the structure of a…

The answer is yes, we can change. And we are changing, just, not as drastically as the times we are in are. With the growing technology and forms of communication the media itself has not developed as rapidly as the technology platforms that it uses. Going on to the internet anyone can connect with anyone from almost anywhere. You can have friends all over the world, from different backgrounds and different lifestyles. You can learn about so much from media sites like tumblr or twitter, so…