Box 105
Container
Contains 6 Results:
1994 Black Theatre Network conference program, 1994
File — Box: 105, Folder: 5
Identifier: Series 4
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...
Dates:
1994
Gray clothbound journal "ntozake/paulette/private writing, april 2000, houston, texas" (restricted until 2050), 2000
File — Box: 105, Folder: 3
Identifier: Series 3
Scope and Contents
Discusses love life, sister Ifa Bayeza, father Paul T. Williams, addiction
Dates:
2000
Typescript manuscript of Some Sing, Some Cry chapters 1-13, 2010 correspondence between Ifa Bayeza and Bisa Williams on revisions, 2010
File — Box: 105, Folder: 1
Identifier: Subseries 1.18
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...
Dates:
2010
Typescript manuscript of Some Sing, Some Cry chapters 14-coda, 2010
File — Box: 105, Folder: 2
Identifier: Subseries 1.18
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...
Dates:
2010
Typewritten manuscript of work that would later become Some Sing, Some Cry sent from Shange to mother Eloise O. Williams, 2001
File — Box: 105, Folder: 6
Identifier: Subseries 1.18
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...
Dates:
2001
Letter from the city of Philadelphia regarding award, with notes, 1994
File — Box: 105, Folder: 4
Identifier: Subseries 2.1
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...
Dates:
1994