TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Speakin arms and dancing bodies in ntozake shange
JO  - African American Review
A1  - Mahurin, S.
SP  - 329
EP  - 343
VL  - 46
IS  - 2-3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1062-4783
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0068
ID  - ref1
ER  -