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Colored Girls
For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Table of Contents for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Study Guide consists of approx. 53 pages of summaries and analysis on for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange. Browse the literature study guide below: Introduction
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Author Biography
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Plot Summary
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Chapter Summaries & Analysis
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Poem One
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Sequence One
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Sequence Two
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Sequence Three
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Sequence Four
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Sequence Five
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Finale
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Characters
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Themes
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Introduction
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf is a choreopoem, a poem (really a series of 20 separate poems) choreographed to music. Although a printed text cannot convey the full impact of a performance of for colored girls..., Shange's stage directions provide a sense of the interrelationships among the performers and of their gestures and dance movements.
The play begins and ends with the lady in brown. The other six performers represent the colors of the rainbow: the ladies in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. The various repercussions of "bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma" are explored through the words, gestures, dance, and music of the seven ladies, who improvise as they shift in
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