Inspiriting Influences
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: June 15, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780231068079
Subjects: Black studies; Literary studies: general; Women's studies; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; USA; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; 20th century; African American authors; American fiction; History and criticism; Women authors
First sentence: NTOZAKE SHANGE'S moving and provocative feminist choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, begins with what is perhaps the dominant image in the recent creative and critical writing of Afro-American women: the struggle to make articulate a heretofore repressed and silenced black female's story and voice.