For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf: Museum Object and Cultural History
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf: Date: 1975; reprinted 2010. Published by: Charles Scribner's Sons, American, founded 1846. Written by: Ntozake Shange, American, 1948 - 2018.
The object in the museum catalogue
A paperback edition of the choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange.
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.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1975; reprinted 2010
- Published by: Charles Scribner's Sons, American, founded 1846
- Written by: Ntozake Shange, American, 1948 - 2018
- Subject of: Tyler Perry, American, born 1969
- Type: books
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 1/4 in. (21.6 × 14 × 0.6 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Feminism
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Literature
- Topic: Poetry
- Topic: Sexuality
- Topic: Theatre
- Topic: Women
- Object number: 2016.131.3.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Ntozake Shange
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Ntozake Shange Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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