Investigating identity and developing community in global Blackness through literary analysis of storytelling
"sing a black girl's song / bring her out / to know herself / to know you"
Black women face the unique and often unaddressed double oppression of racism and sexism while simultaneously performing the unrecognized labor of love and sacrifice for their Black men. When womanhood feels like a campaign of endurance and perseverance, Shange's Broadway play "For colored girls..." reminds us of our strength and will to live.
Pan African Poetics 