Box 72

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for colored girls who have considered suicide/but moved to the ends of their own rainbows typewritten manuscript with handwritten notes in Shange's hand, including multiple sequences of poems. Pages are out of order and some are missing.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries 1.10, If I Can Cook/You Know God Can, 1994-1997, undated, includes handwritten and typewritten manuscripts of chapters and recipes.If I Can Cook/You Know God Can, written by Shange and first published by Beacon Press in 1998, is a culinary memoir and recipe book of traditional Black cuisine connecting significant moments in Black history throughout the diaspora with traditional dishes created or reemerging at the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 4, Press, Programs, and Ephemera, 1970-2019, undated, includes newspapers and magazine clippings with coverage and reviews of Shange’s and others’ works; playbills and programs; flyers and posters; press materials for works of Shange’s and works of others that she attended; recordings of television and radio media appearances; and ephemera such as travel itineraries, theater tickets, and book jackets. This series documents both Shange’s own creative output and frequent speaking...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries 2.1, Business, 1984-2018, undated, contains professional correspondence between Shange and editors, agents, producers, as well as publicity materials, travel documents and itineraries, invitations, fundraising asks, membership materials, performance notes, recommendation letters, requests for Shange’s critique or blurbs for other works, royalty statements and payments, and contracts received or sent by Shange. Much of the correspondence relates to works by Shange and in some cases...

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Travel itineraries, emails about book promotion dates from manager Don Sutton, and photocopies of poems with notes for readings

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Includes images of Ntozake Shange and Savannah Shange

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New York Shakespeare Festival production: July 19, 1979 version with production notes; July 26, 1979 version with cast list, stage directions, blocking, sound cues, costume notes, prop list, and other production notes

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries 1.20, Spell #7, 1979, undated, consists of drafts and production material for the play. Spell #7, also known as spell #7: geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for technologically stressed third world people and Spell #7: A Geechee Quick Magic Trance Manual, a choreopoem written by Shange and first performed in 1979, is a play about Black actors...

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Bound typewritten manuscripts of "carrie" and "melissa & smith." "carrie" may be a character sketch for the novel Betsy Brown; "melissa & smith" was published as a chapbook with Toothpaste Press in 1976.

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Two typewritten copies, one with edits

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Photocopied handwritten and typewritten manuscripts with additional handwritten notes sent to Shange's brother Paul T. Williams, Jr., including 1983 "A Weekend in Austin/A Poet, the People, and the KKK" first draft (work later published in See no evil), and 1986 draft of Daddy Say: A Play script (later published as Daddy Says). 1978 Manuscript for Havana by Willard Hyuck and Gloria Katz

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: 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...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 3, Journals, Agendas, and Notes, 1972-2018, undated, includes notebooks, journals, agendas, notepads, lists, scratch paper, photocopies, and other notes related to Shange’s personal, professional, and creative life. The materials in this series contain personal diary entries and musings, some of which make mention of family and friends; journal entries about dreams; notes and materials related to personal health and recovery from substance abuse and strokes; notes, research materials,...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 10, Collected Written Works, Music, and Visual Art, 1913-2018, undated, includes selections from Shange’s personal library from her home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (collected by Barnard archivists and Professor Kim Hall in 2014); as well as other texts, recorded music, and visual artwork collected by Shange. Many of the books and magazines from Shange’s library speak directly to her interests and influences and are annotated; published works by Shange are also included here,...