Manuscripts of It Has Not Always Been This Way and Mouths: A Daughter's Geography in black notebook, 1981
Scope and Contents
Black notebook with Cuba sticker on front: includes newspaper clipping about father Paul T. Williams; ink drawing and poem from Diane Graydon to Shange; watercolor; photograph of baby; note with list of works; typewritten (May 1981) draft of It Has not Always Been This Way with handwritten edits and notes; Mouths: A Daughter's Geography (1st draft, dated 4/3/81) with notes on April production at the Kitchen (with Shange, Felipe Luciano, Ed Monk, Halifu Osumare, Elvia Marta in cast; Thulani Davis, director; choreography by Dianne McIntyre) with cut and pasted text, handwritten edits, and notes
Dates
- Creation: 1981
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