Works by Shange, 1966-2018, undated

Series 1, Works by Shange, 1996-2018, undated, includes drafts, fragments, manuscripts, publishers proofs, published copies (some including notes), performance materials, correspondence and other materials related to works by Ntozake Shange. Works represented include poems, essays, interviews, novels, plays, choreopoems, musicals, teleplays, screenplays, and unrealized projects. Shange adapted many of her own works for performance and filming; this series includes musical and television treatments of works, as well as works grouped and marked up or edited for performance (including choreography notes and dance notation). This series is further arranged into 24 series for each work by Shange with significant materials in the collection, as well as a series of other and multiple works and a series of unidentified works. While this series incorporates the bulk of materials about individual works by Shange, other useful materials related to her creative output may be found in other series: correspondence with editors, friends, and family about works in Series 2, Correspondence; drafts of works written in journals and research notes in Series 3, Journals, Agendas, and Notes; programs, clippings, and other materials related to the promotion of written and performed works in Series 4, Press, Programs, and Ephemera; photographs of performances and rehearsals in Series 6, Photographs; adaptations of works within this series in Series 7; and works by others which inspired Shange in Series 10, Collected Written Works, Music, and Visual Art.