For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.

SHANGE, Ntozake.

Item Number: 106544

New York: Macmillan, 1977.

First edition of Ntozake Shange’s first work and most acclaimed theater piece, which premiered in 1976. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper with a quote from this work, “Ntozake Shange ‘her own things’ that’s my name.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rubin Pfeffer. Jacket illustration by Paul Davis.

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a society steeped in racism and sexism. The piece consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form Shange coined as the choreopoem.