The urban definition of an angry black women is, “An African American female who has been exposed to many players, liars, manipulators and cheats that her original gentle loving, caring, nurturing , spirit has been diminished to a blackened heart, hard exterior and bitter disposition at times to the point of no recovery,” (urban dictionary 2017). This definition time and time again has diminished black women and their accomplishments to just being angry and bitter. This has also set forth a stereotype of African American Women and their experiences and how they express those experiences. African American women have been tied to this need but unachievable fulfillment of love. This has caused a nature of competition between African American women
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This has also hurt the artistic nature of the African American women to where they cannot be artistically represented in a positive way. Thus posing the question, Can a non competitive artistic nature be be formed amongst African American women? This has been proven in Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls WHo Considered Suicide when the rainbow was Enuf.
Ntozake Shange is an African American award winning playwright, poet and novelist. She is also a Black Feminist and played a significant role in the Black Arts Movement. She was Born in Trenton, New Jersey on October 18, 1948 into a upper middle-class African American family. She was originally born Paulette Williams. Her parents Paul and Eloise Williams were an Air Force surgeon and Psychiatric social worker. Growing up she had the pleasure of being closely acquainted and influenced by icons like Dizzie Gillespie, Miles Davis and W. E. B. Dubois. This influence sparked a legacy that would lead to a triumphant career for Shange. Shange is an alumna of Barnard College. She achieved a masters …show more content…
This choreo poem fosters a community of African American women in their American society experiences through song, art, and dance. This is a choreopoem, that has a set of twenty separate poems that is choreographed to music about the women's experiences with love, empowerment, struggle and loss. A choreopoem is a term that was introduced, by the work, in 1975 by Ntozake Shange herself. A choreopoem is a form of dramatic expression that combines poetry, dance, music, and song. These complexes have come together to represent the women and the bond of sisterhood. The characters in the choreopoem consist of seven women of African descent. These women only identify as the color that has been assigned to them. These colors represent the colors of the rainbow. The characters are the lady in red, the lady in blue, the lady in purple , the lady in yellow, the lady in brown, the lady in green and the lay in orange. In the choreo poems Shange tackles abortion, abandonment, rape and domestic violence through the seven women. The play is written in a vernacular english so that the audience or the reader's focus would be more on the content of the play and relating to the experiences of the women. Shange also wanted the audience to relate to the play or novel by writing in a language that was spoken everyday by the targeted
This has also hurt the artistic nature of the African American women to where they cannot be artistically represented in a positive way. Thus posing the question, Can a non competitive artistic nature be be formed amongst African American women? This has been proven in Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls WHo Considered Suicide when the rainbow was Enuf.
Ntozake Shange is an African American award winning playwright, poet and novelist. She is also a Black Feminist and played a significant role in the Black Arts Movement. She was Born in Trenton, New Jersey on October 18, 1948 into a upper middle-class African American family. She was originally born Paulette Williams. Her parents Paul and Eloise Williams were an Air Force surgeon and Psychiatric social worker. Growing up she had the pleasure of being closely acquainted and influenced by icons like Dizzie Gillespie, Miles Davis and W. E. B. Dubois. This influence sparked a legacy that would lead to a triumphant career for Shange. Shange is an alumna of Barnard College. She achieved a masters …show more content…
This choreo poem fosters a community of African American women in their American society experiences through song, art, and dance. This is a choreopoem, that has a set of twenty separate poems that is choreographed to music about the women's experiences with love, empowerment, struggle and loss. A choreopoem is a term that was introduced, by the work, in 1975 by Ntozake Shange herself. A choreopoem is a form of dramatic expression that combines poetry, dance, music, and song. These complexes have come together to represent the women and the bond of sisterhood. The characters in the choreopoem consist of seven women of African descent. These women only identify as the color that has been assigned to them. These colors represent the colors of the rainbow. The characters are the lady in red, the lady in blue, the lady in purple , the lady in yellow, the lady in brown, the lady in green and the lay in orange. In the choreo poems Shange tackles abortion, abandonment, rape and domestic violence through the seven women. The play is written in a vernacular english so that the audience or the reader's focus would be more on the content of the play and relating to the experiences of the women. Shange also wanted the audience to relate to the play or novel by writing in a language that was spoken everyday by the targeted