Ntozake Shange

The movie for colored girls was made based on the novel which is also entitled for colored girls by Ntozake Shange, the movie express the struggles and obstacles that African American women face throughout their life. The movie reveals seven women who are brought together through their own troubles. The movies deals with love, abandonment, rape, and abortions; at the end of the film all seven women come together evoking the power of women hood amongst black African American females. “Being alive

In Negroland and Fun Home, Margo Jefferson and Alison Bechdel both view their individual lives and identities as interacting with history. However, their perceptions of history differ vastly in that Jefferson identifies herself as both a spectator and player in a giant game of sociocultural history, while Bechdel perceives national history as a tape reeling alongside her life, shaping her worldview but serving as a backdrop amidst her individual life. In Negroland, Jefferson relates to and traces

Ntozake Shange claims that he “firmly believes that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives”. Therefore the way we use language can mold one’s decisions and those decisions molds one’s life and even those surrounding us. Shange’s beliefs coincide with with William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. The play tells the story of a young man, Hamlet, who was intended to be king after his father’s death. Yet he becomes mad after

Mira Nair I first remember hearing about Mira Nair last year, not in my Introduction to Cinema class but from my half-Indian friend who praised Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding. It should be noted that my first film teacher was a white man, older than sixty and not concerned with women directors; out of the sixteen films screened for the semester, two were directed by women and none by women of color. Mira Nair has a unique understanding that she is fighting a long and slow battle for her films to be

Throughout this semester, we’ve talked about what it means to “write against the grain”— to harness the power of resistance through writing in order to expose and thus challenge oppressive mechanisms of power. We’ve questioned our understanding of “good” and “serious” writing, coming to realize that such labels are defined by a normative and limiting view of literature. But, we’ve also questioned our very understanding of what counts as “writing” through exploring different forms of literature [Hold

comfort in with relationships, yet never appear to receive love in return. For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf The play For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf is a piece written by Ntozake Shange that displays seven different African American women through different aspects of their life and how it affected those around them. Each woman portrays a story to tell,

aspect of theatre does not exclude special groups like feminists and the LGBT community. There has been an uprising in multicultural theatre companies in the United States: INSTAR, Ma-Yi Theater Co., National Black Theatre, etc. The playwright Ntozake Shange wrote For Colored Girls at the peak of the black feminist movement, in 1975. The play is a collection of poems that confess the stories of seven women of color and how their lives interconnect. The play contains topics of domestic abuse, rape

The full title of the choreopoem by Ntozoke Shange is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. From the table of contents: dark phrases graduation nite now i love somebody more than no assistance i'm a poet who latent rapists' abortion cycle #1 sechita toussaint one i used to live in the world pyramid no more love poems #1 no more love poems #2 no more love poems #3 no more love poems #4 somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff sorry a nite with

Bakhtin's “chronotope” is a narrative time concept underlining that time cannot be understood without a spatial dimension: time and space are interconnected. In Greek ‘chronos’ means time and ‘topos’ means place. Bakhtin wanted to find a chronotope in different literary genres, which gave characters most freedom and creativity. Chronotope (space-time) bridges plot and narrated events with the real world. He called the lived time as- real time, historical time or horizontal time. In the historical

There has been always a belief that human races have distinctive characteristics that determine their respective cultures. In most cases, the idea that one 's race is superior and is assumed to provide the right to rule or dominate others. There is also the distinct personality in which people are concerned with the persisting entity to particular individuals. The theme of racism and personal identity are evidenced in the plays; Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles in various instances