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Ntozake Shange on Stage and Screen

Ntozake Shange, Soyica Diggs Colbert, and Monica Miller
Nov 7, 2012 | 6:00pm
Screening and Discussion
James Room
4th Floor Barnard Hall
Co-Sponsors: Africana Studies

For Colored Girls cover

The 2012-13 Africana Distinguished Alumna Series honors one of Barnard’s most distinguished African American alumnae: Ntozake Shange ’70. A playwright, poet, and novelist of startling originality, Shange is best known for her 1975 Obie Award-winning play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. Following the screening of Tyler Perry’s acclaimed 2010 film version of the play, Ms. Shange speaks candidly with Soyica Diggs Colbert, assistant professor of English at Dartmouth College, and Monica Miller, associate professor of English at Barnard, about her groundbreaking work and its controversial adaptation to the screen.

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