lost in language & sound: or how i found my way to the arts:essays She describes where her love for creative forces began--in her childhood home, a place where imagination reigned and boredom wasn't allowed.A vibrant and vital collection that celebrates
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| Title | : | lost in language & sound: or how i found my way to the arts:essays |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.90 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 031220616X |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2011-12-06 |
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A vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most important muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange—language, music, and dance.In this deeply personal book, the celebrated writer reflects on what it means to be an artist, a woman, and a woman of color through a beautiful combination of memoir and essay. She describes where her love for creative forces began--in her childhood home, a place where imagination reigned and boredom wasn't allowed. The essays tell stories ranging from the poignant origin of her celebrated play "for colored girls" to why Shange needed to deconstruct the English language to make that production work, from the intensity of the female experience and the black experience as separate entities to the difficulty of living both lives simultaneously; from the intense love of jazz bestowed on her by her father to a similar obsession with dance, which came from her mother. With deep sincerity,
Editorial : "if there's another writer in America who can write prose like this - with this sort of intricate layering of linguistic play - I wish someone would direct me to them. If Shelley were reborn as a black woman in the mid-20th century, maybe he would write like this. Shange roars with pure literary fire."--The San Francisco Chronicle
Brought back many memories of my youth. As a result, his diary is compulsively readable from end to end, as well as being frequently quite funny. From the beginning, tension builds in Bariwon, and I was cheering for Snapdragon as the adventure unfolded. TREACHERY IN THE YARD by Adimchinma Ibe is a Nigerian noir police procedural. Alphabetic writing itself became
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