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THE SUBJUGATION OF THE VOICELESS IN NTOZAKE SHANGE’S THREE PIECES
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Author(s):
DR. R. BAKYARAJ
Vol - 10, Issue- 1 ,
Page(s) : 26 - 33
(2019 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
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Abstract
Colored Girls first gained dishonor in 1974 as an exhilarating enactment by Shange and four of her close friends in a Berkeley, Calif., women’s bar, the Bacchanal. As they progressed and danced, they recited Shange’s poems–about coming of age, suffering, sexual battering, and reclamation. Colored Girls arrived during a cultural renaissance when communities of color—Black, Latino, Asian, Native American–were working in solidarity. Women's rights provided the context. Below is a quote from the remarkable Ntozake Shange. Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of spirits. — Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo
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