<I>For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1975; reprinted 2010
name: label: Published by
content: Charles Scribner's Sons, American, founded 1846
label: Written by
content: Ntozake Shange, American, 1948 - 2018
label: Subject of
content: Tyler Perry, American, born 1969
notes: label: Description
content: A paperback edition of the choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange.
label: Description
content: The cover of the book has the title printed in a rainbow decorative text against a white tiled wall, with a color illustration of a woman in an orange headscarf at the bottom left. Along the left side is a band of black with white text reading [A Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange] and along the top is a red band with white text reading [THE INSPIRATION FOR THE UPCOMING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY TYLER PERRY]. The interior contents begin with a page with several blurbs from critics, a page with a list of works by Shange, the title page, a dedication page, and a listing of the twenty included poems by title. There are 64 pages total, with no illustrations. The back cover is red and white, with two blurbs, a summary of the book, and a biography of Shange.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Feminism
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Poetry
label: Topic
content: Sexuality
label: Topic
content: Theatre
label: Topic
content: Women
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Ntozake Shange
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.131.3.1
objectType: label: Type
content: books
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Ntozake Shange
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 1/4 in. (21.6 × 14 × 0.6 cm)