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Lost in language & sound, or, How I found my way to the arts : essays
Author
Title
Lost in language & sound, or, How I found my way to the arts : essays / Ntozake Shange.
ISBN
9780312206161
031220616X
1250035562
9781250035561
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Summary
Explores language, music, and dance as interpreted though the author's works, combining memoir and essay to explore her deconstruction of English in her celebrated play "For colored girls" and her views on life as a woman and a black individual.
Variant and related titles
Lost in language and sound
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 25, 2022
Contents
from analphabetic to script obsessed
a history : for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf
unrecovered losses/ black theater traditions
my pen is a machete
takin' a solo/ a poetic possibility/ a poetic imperative
how I moved anna fierling to the southwest territories or my personal victory over the armies of western civilization
getting where I haveta be/ the nature of collaboration in recent works
why i had to dance//
movement/ melody/ muscle/ meaning/ mcintyre
did i hear the congregation say amen?
a celebration of black survival/ black dance america/ brooklyn academy of music/ April 21-24, 1983
bang on!
2 live crew
the couch
the dark room
dear daddy, "el amor que tu me das
"
ellie, who is my mother
on silk
in search of a home
however you come to me
mr. wrong
justice
porque tu no m'entrende? whatcha mean you can't understand me?
letter to a young poet
first love.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Essays.
American essays - 21st century.
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