@article{ref1,
title="Speakin arms and dancing bodies in ntozake shange",
journal="African American Review",
year="2013",
author="Mahurin, S.",
volume="46",
number="2-3",
pages="329-343",
abstract="This article considers ideas of embodiment and theatricality in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbox is enuf, which was originally conceived as a series of spoken-word poems. The production's move to the stage signifies an almostcomplete rewriting: the conversion from poem to performance presents the literal embodiment of a preexisting text, and, at least to some extent, the sublimation of language by body. This essay argues that Shange creates a theatre of the physical, and, in particular, a theatre that insists upon-depends upon-the primacy of its only constant: the black female body. © 2014 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1062-4783",
doi="10.1353/afa.2013.0068",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0068"
}