Lost in Language & Sound, or, How I Found my way to the Arts : : Essays
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from analphabetic to script obsessed -- a history : for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf -- unrecovered losses/ black theater traditions -- my pen is a machete -- takin' a solo/ a poetic possibility/ a poetic imperative -- how I moved anna fierling to the southwest territories or my personal victory over the armies of western civilization -- getting where I haveta be/ the nature of collaboration in recent works -- why i had to dance// -- movement/ melody/ muscle/ meaning/ mcintyre -- did i hear the congregation say amen? -- a celebration of black survival/ black dance america/ brooklyn academy of music/ April 21-24, 1983 -- bang on! -- 2 live crew -- the couch -- the dark room -- dear daddy, "el amor que tu me das--" -- ellie, who is my mother -- on silk -- in search of a home -- however you come to me -- mr. wrong -- justice -- porque tu no m'entrende? whatcha mean you can't understand me? -- letter to a young poet -- first love.
Explores language, music, and dance as interpreted though the author's works, combining memoir and essay to explore her deconstruction of English in her celebrated play "For colored girls" and her views on life as a woman and a black individual.
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Art submitted by smr on July 7, 2020, 1:19pm The way to the art
PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: xvi, 144 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780312206161
031220616X
1250035562
9781250035561
SUBJECTS
Shange, Ntozake.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Creative ability.
Essays.