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Copies, printouts, and handwritten works by Shange including essays; correspondence with Claudia Schaab of Conari Press; fax to Joe Regal about psychoanalysis piece, 1997

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 2
Identifier: Subseries 1.25

Scope and Contents

Copies, printouts, and handwritten works by Shange including essays: "Porque tu no M'entiendes? What do you mean you can't understand me?," "The Dark Room," The Couch -- Dark Rooms," "Borders Essay," photocopy of handwritten essay beginning "Before we can hastily address multi-culturalism, we must address the issue of language...," and "Ellie, who is my mother;" correspondence with Claudia Schaab of Conari Press about Shange's contribution of "Ellie, who is my mother" to "The Source of Spring: Mothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers;" fax to Joe Regal about psychoanalysis piece

Dates

  • Creation: 1997

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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