A Study Guide for Ntozake Shange's "Betsey Brown"
Title | A Study Guide for Ntozake Shange's "Betsey Brown" PDF eBook |
Author | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 2016-06-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1410341216 |
A Study Guide for Ntozake Shange's "Betsey Brown," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
A Study Guide for Ntozake Shange's "Betsey Brown"
Title | A Study Guide for Ntozake Shange's "Betsey Brown" PDF eBook |
Author | Cengage Learning Gale |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 2017-07-25 |
Genre | Study Aids |
ISBN | 9781375377041 |
A Study Guide for Ntozake Shange's "Betsey Brown," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Betsey Brown
Title | Betsey Brown PDF eBook |
Author | Ntozake Shange |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2010-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429956631 |
Praised as "exuberantly engaging" by the Los Angeles Times and a "beautiful, beautiful piece of writing" by the Houston Post, acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange brings to life the story of a young girl's awakening amidst her country's seismic growing pains in Betsey Brown. Set in St. Louis in 1957, the year of the Little Rock Nine, Shange's story reveals the prismatic effect of racism on an American child and her family. Seamlessly woven into this masterful portrait of an extended family is the story of Betsey's adolescence, the rush of first romance, and the sobering responsibilities of approaching adulthood.
NOVELS FOR STUDENTS
Title | NOVELS FOR STUDENTS PDF eBook |
Author | CENGAGE LEARNING. GALE |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781535819367 |
For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf
Title | For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf PDF eBook |
Author | Ntozake Shange |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2010-11-02 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1451624158 |
The “extraordinary and wonderful” award-winning play in a new edition featuring an additional poem, production photos, and an introduction by Jesmyn Ward (The New York Times). From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century—and they continue to ring true in the 21st. First published in 1975, it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had”. This new edition celebrates the play’s enduring legacy with introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown. It also features a poem not previously included in the text, and a selection of photos capturing the play’s evolution and reinvention.
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Title | Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo PDF eBook |
Author | Ntozake Shange |
Publisher | St. Martin's Griffin |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2010-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429956666 |
Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. "A jubilant celebration of womanhood—as moving as the moon . . . pure magic." --Kansas City Star Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother before her. Having gone north to college, she is now living with other artists in Los Angeles and trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories and dreams. Cypress, the dancer, leaves home to find new ways of moving in the world. Indigo, the youngest, is still a child of Charleston-"too much of the south in her"-who lives in poetry and has the supreme gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world. Shange's rich and wondrous story of womanhood, art, and passionately-lived lives is written "with such exquisite care and beauty that anybody can relate to her message" (The New York Times).
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can
Title | If I Can Cook/You Know God Can PDF eBook |
Author | Ntozake Shange |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2019-01-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0807021458 |
New edition available. Search ISBN 9780807021446. Acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange offers this delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a food of life that reflects the spirit and history of a people. With recipes such as "Cousin Eddie's Shark with Breadfruit" and "Collard Greens to Bring You Money," Shange instructs us in the nuances of a cuisine born on the slave ships of the Middle Passage, spiced by the jazz of Duke Ellington, and shared by all members of the African Diaspora. Rich with personal memories and historical insight, If I Can Cook/You Know God Can is a vivid story of the migration of a people, and the cuisine that marks their living legacy and celebration of taste.