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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subseries 1.16, Nomathemba, 1994-1996, undated, includes drafts, production notes, and edits of the musical written by Shange, Eric Simonson and Ladysmith Black Mambazo's leader, Joseph Shabalala. First performed in 1996, Nomathemba is a love story set in post-apartheid South Africa.

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

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 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...

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Typed copy of "Birthday in Brixton;" Chapter 2 of If I Can Cook/You Know God Can titled "Dreamin of a proper meal/chattel to consumer;" uncorrected proof of I Live in Music (A Work in Progress)