Some Sing, Some Cry Character Generations Outline and edits from Ifa Bayeza, undated
Scope and Contents
Subseries 1.18, Some Sing, Some Cry, 1977-2010, undated, includes extensive drafts, edits, rewrites, proofs, and correspondence. Published in 2010 and written by Shange and her sister, Ifa Bayeza, Some Sing, Some Cry is an epic novel telling the story of seven generations of a family of Black women in the U.S. Some Sing, Some Cry was originally titled How I Come By This Crying Song.
Dates
- Creation: undated
Creator
- From the Collection: Shange, Ntozake (Person)
Access
One journal from Series 03, Journals, Agendas, and Notes, is restricted until 2050 at the request of the Ntozake Shange Trust due to sensitive material. This collection has no other access restrictions.
Extent
From the Collection: 68.8 Linear Feet (74 document boxes, 1 half document box, 16 cartons, 7 clamshell box, 3 oversized folders, 7 oversized box, 1 binder, 1 box of digital media including CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, DVD-RWs, 3.5 inch floppy disks, and a MiniDV tape)
From the Collection: 17.1 Gigabytes (1 pdf, 43 m4a music files, and 776 jpg files)
Language
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Spanish; Castilian
Repository Details
Part of the Barnard Archives and Special Collections Repository