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EH 324: African American Drama: For Colored Girls . . .

Background

Shange, Ntozake from African American Writers

Shange, Ntozake from Black Literature Criticism

Shange, Ntozake from The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

Book and Theatre Reviews in Historical Newspapers

Video Clips

For Colored Girls Who've Considered Suicide When the Ranbow is Enuf by Ntosake Shange

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

Criticism:

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf Character overview and critical essay from Drama for Students

Overview: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf from Literature and its Times

Ntozake Shange: A Critical Study of the Plays
Call Number: PS3569.H3324 Z77 1994
In Search of a Model for African-American Drama: A Study of Selected Plays by Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, and Ntozake Shange
Call Number: PS338.N4 E38 2000

History

Ntozake Shange: Genesis of a Choreopoem from the Negro History Bulletin

African American Women in the Performing Arts

p. 203: choreopoems

‘For Colored Girls’ Is a Choreopoem. What’s a Choreopoem? from The New York Times

Playbill: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, directed by Oz Scott, produced by the Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper Forum, August 1977

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