Sassafrass Cypress Indigo

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429956666

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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange Pdf

Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. "A jubilant celebration of womanhood—as moving as the moon . . . pure magic." --Kansas City Star Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother before her. Having gone north to college, she is now living with other artists in Los Angeles and trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories and dreams. Cypress, the dancer, leaves home to find new ways of moving in the world. Indigo, the youngest, is still a child of Charleston-"too much of the south in her"-who lives in poetry and has the supreme gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world. Shange's rich and wondrous story of womanhood, art, and passionately-lived lives is written "with such exquisite care and beauty that anybody can relate to her message" (The New York Times).

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781439186817

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For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange Pdf

A "choreo-poem" reflecting the views of a black American woman about the women of her race

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429956631

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Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange Pdf

Praised as "exuberantly engaging" by the Los Angeles Times and a "beautiful, beautiful piece of writing" by the Houston Post, acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange brings to life the story of a young girl's awakening amidst her country's seismic growing pains. Set in St. Louis in 1957, the year of the Little Rock Nine, Shange's story reveals the prismatic effect of racism on an American child and her family. Seamlessly woven into this masterful portrait of an extended family is the story of Betsey's adolescence, the rush of first romance, and the sobering responsibilities of approaching adulthood.

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807021453

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If I Can Cook/You Know God Can by Ntozake Shange Pdf

New edition available. Search ISBN 9780807021446. Acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange offers this delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a food of life that reflects the spirit and history of a people. With recipes such as "Cousin Eddie's Shark with Breadfruit" and "Collard Greens to Bring You Money," Shange instructs us in the nuances of a cuisine born on the slave ships of the Middle Passage, spiced by the jazz of Duke Ellington, and shared by all members of the African Diaspora. Rich with personal memories and historical insight, If I Can Cook/You Know God Can is a vivid story of the migration of a people, and the cuisine that marks their living legacy and celebration of taste.

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602203339

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Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange Pdf

Author : Ntozake Shange,Ifa Bayeza
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429959353

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Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake Shange,Ifa Bayeza Pdf

Groundbreaking and heartbreaking, this triumphant novel by two of America's most acclaimed storytellers follows a family of women from enslavement to the dawn of the twenty-first century. From Reconstruction to both world wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam, from spirituals and arias to torch songs and the blues, Some Sing, Some Cry brings to life the monumental story of one American family's journey from slavery into freedom, from country into city, from the past to the future, bright and blazing ahead. Real-life sisters, Ntozake Shange, award-winning author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and Ifa Bayeza, award-winning playwright of The Ballad of Emmett Till, achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this story of seven generations of women, and the men and music in their lives. Opening dramatically at a sprawling plantation just off the South Carolina coast, recently emancipated slave Bette Mayfield quickly says her goodbyes before fleeing for Charleston with her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow. She and Eudora carve out lives for themselves in the bustling port city as seamstress and fortune-teller. Eudora marries, the Mayfield lines grows and becomes an incredibly strong, musically gifted family, a family that is led, protected, and inspired by its women. Some Sing, Some Cry chronicles their astonishing passage through the watershed events of American history.

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312644108

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Liliane by Ntozake Shange Pdf

Through the polyphonic voices of Liliane Lincoln's childhood friends, lovers, and conversations with her psychoanalyst, Ntozake Shange weaves the life of a remarkable young woman. Liliane Lincoln is an artist who exposes what she knows of herself to the world through her bold and colorful artwork. Gradually, however, Liliane realizes that in order to survive, she must come to terms with what she has kept hidden even from herself. Liliane is extraordinary vision of a woman learning to be who she really is.

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1986-12-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0312083025

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Black Book by Robert Mapplethorpe Pdf

An astonishing photographic study of black men today from the acclaimed portrait photographer.

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0312064241

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Nappy Edges by Ntozake Shange Pdf

Fifty-five poems grouped under five headings: "things i wd say," "love & other highways," "closets," " & she bleeds," and "she whispers with the unicorn."

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780689830815

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Daddy Says by Ntozake Shange Pdf

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Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781501169953

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Wild Beauty by Ntozake Shange Pdf

NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes “a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a moving bilingual collection of new and beloved poems. In this stirring collection of more than sixty original and selected poems in both English and Spanish, Ntozake Shange shares her utterly unique, unapologetic, and deeply emotional writing that has made her one of the most iconic literary figures of our time. With a clear, raw, and affecting voice, Shange draws from her experience as a feminist black woman in American to craft groundbreaking poetry about pain, beauty, and color. In the bestselling tradition of Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, Wild Beauty is more than a poetry collection; it is an exquisite call to action for a new generation of women, people of color, feminists, and activists to follow in the author’s footsteps in the pursuit of equality and understanding. As The New York Times raves, “Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message.”

Author : Teresa N. Washington
Publisher : Oya's Tornado
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts by Teresa N. Washington Pdf

“Blazes a new trail in Africana literary criticism by providing an insight into the soul and spirit of Africana womanhood.” --Anthonia Kalu, The Ohio State University, author of Women, Literature, and Development in Africa This is the revised and expanded edition of Teresa N. Washington's groundbreaking book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature. In Yoruba language and culture, Aje signifies both a phenomenal spiritual power and the human beings who exercise that power. Aje is the birthright of Africana women who are revered as the Gods of Society. While Africana men can have Aje, its owners and controllers are Africana women. Because it is an African female power, and due to its invisibility, ubiquity, and profundity, Aje is often maligned as witchcraft. However, as Teresa N. Washington reveals in Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts, Aje is central to the Yoruba ethos, worldview, and cosmology. Not only is it essential to human creation and artistic creativity, but as a force of justice and retribution, Aje is vital to social harmony and balance. Washington analyzes forms, figures, and forces of Aje in the Yoruba world, in the Caribbean Islands, in Latin America, and in African America. Washington's research reveals that with the exile and enslavement of millions of Africans, Aje became a global force and an essential ally in organizing insurrections, soothing shattered souls, and reminding the dispossessed of their inherent divinity. From her in-depth exploration of Aje in Pan-African history and orature, Washington guides readers through rich analyses of the symbolic, methodological, and spiritual manifestations of Aje that are central to important works by Africana writers but are rarely elucidated by Western criticism. Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts includes innovative readings of works by many Africana writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Wole Soyinka, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ntozake Shange. This revised and expanded edition of Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts will appeal to scholars of Africana literature, African religion and philosophy, gender studies, and comparative literature. Devotees of Africana spiritual systems will find this book to be indispensable.

Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 031220616X

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lost in language & sound by Ntozake Shange Pdf

A vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most important muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange—language, music, and dance. In this deeply personal book, the celebrated writer reflects on what it means to be an artist, a woman, and a woman of color through a beautiful combination of memoir and essay. She describes where her love for creative forces began--in her childhood home, a place where imagination reigned and boredom wasn't allowed. The essays tell stories ranging from the poignant origin of her celebrated play "for colored girls" to why Shange needed to deconstruct the English language to make that production work, from the intensity of the female experience and the black experience as separate entities to the difficulty of living both lives simultaneously; from the intense love of jazz bestowed on her by her father to a similar obsession with dance, which came from her mother. With deep sincerity, attention, and her legendary candor, Shange's collection progresses from the public arena to the private, gathering along the way the passions and insights of an author who writes with “such exquisite care and beauty that anybody can relate to her message” (Clive Barnes, The New York Times).

Author : Lee Quinby
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816625603

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Genealogy and Literature by Lee Quinby Pdf

Traditionalists insist that literature transcends culture. Others counter that it is subversive by nature. By challenging both claims, Genealogy and Literature reveals the importance of literature for understanding dominant and often violent power/knowledge relations within a given society. The authors explore the ways in which literature functions as a cultural practice, the links between death and literature as a field of discourse, and the possibilities of dismantling modes of bodily regulation. Through wide-ranging investigations of writing from England, France, Nigeria, Peru, Japan, and the United States, they reinvigorate the study of literature as a means of understanding the complexities of everyday experience. Contributors: Claudette Kemper Columbus, Lennard J. Davis, Simon During, Michel Foucault, Ellen J. Goldner, Tom Hayes, Kate Mehuron, Donald Mengay, Imafedia Okhamafe, Lee Quinby, Jose David Saldivar, and Malini Johar Schueller.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451686883

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Surfacing by Margaret Atwood Pdf

From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale—now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series—and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series. Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose. Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole.