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Other and multiple works, 1996-2018, undated

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Subseries 1.25

Scope and Contents

Subseries 1.25, Other and multiple works, 1996-2018, undated, includes materials related to other works by Shange (for which there were not enough items to constitute a subseries). This subseries also contains groupings of materials in which multiple works were originally arranged together (for example, photocopies of multiple excerpts or poems grouped and edited for performance or anthologies). Types of materials include photocopies of published works (some with notes), typewritten and handwritten manuscripts and proofs with notes and edits (from Shange, editors, and others), recordings of and notes for performances, dance notation and choreography, and interviews. Works represented in this subseries include The Lizard Series, Betsey Brown; From Okra to Greens; Lavender Lizards & Lilac Landmines: Layla's Dream; Some Sing, Some Cry; Freedom's a-Callin Me; If I Can Cook/You Know God Can; Whitewash; i live in music; daddy says (reviewer copy); The Lizard Series; Selected Works by Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza; The Love Space Demands: a Continuing Saga; an issue of Phat Mama (the literary magazine created by Shange and others at while undergraduates at Barnard College; Nomathemba, Sparkle; Some Men, Before It Hits Home; Liliane; the “Jitterbug” and “Jazz” projects; 8 pieces and 'a photograph'/other forms (including a work later titled A Photograph: Lovers in Motion); It Has not Always Been This Way; Mouths: A Daughter's Geography; We Troubled the Waters; Pasaporte; Tropicorama; texts for and recordings of performances (including Hydraulics Phat Like Mean and Dangling Participles and Shady Syllables); works that Shange edited or adapted, including her adaptation of Mother Courage and Her Children; individual essays, articles, criticism, and poems (including a poem written by Shange as a high schooler for her high school literary magazine); and visual artwork by Shange.

Dates

  • Creation: 1996-2018, undated

Creator

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

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