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Explores language, music, and dance as interpreted though the author's works, combining memoir and essay to explore her deconstruction of English in her celebrated play "For colored girls" and her views on life as a woman and a black individual.

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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
144

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Subjects
Creative ability, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Biography, African American authors, African American arts, American Dramatists, African American women authors, Essays (single author)
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Lost in language & sound, or, How I found my way to the arts: essays
2011, St. Martin's Press
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Table of Contents

from analphabetic to script obsessed
a history : for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf
unrecovered losses/ black theater traditions
my pen is a machete
takin' a solo/ a poetic possibility/ a poetic imperative
how I moved anna fierling to the southwest territories or my personal victory over the armies of western civilization
getting where I haveta be/ the nature of collaboration in recent works
why i had to dance//
movement/ melody/ muscle/ meaning/ mcintyre
did i hear the congregation say amen?
a celebration of black survival/ black dance america/ brooklyn academy of music/ April 21-24, 1983
bang on!
2 live crew
the couch
the dark room
dear daddy, "el amor que tu me das
"
ellie, who is my mother
on silk
in search of a home
however you come to me
mr. wrong
justice
porque tu no m'entrende? whatcha mean you can't understand me?
letter to a young poet
first love.

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Other Titles
Lost in language and sound

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812/.54, B
Library of Congress
PS3569.H3324 Z46 2011, PS3569.H3324Z46 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 144 p. ;
Number of pages
144

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25220532M
Internet Archive
lostinlanguageso0000shan
ISBN 10
031220616X
ISBN 13
9780312206161
LCCN
2011026770
OCLC/WorldCat
707969664

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