{"id":1193,"date":"2019-12-14T13:54:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T18:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/?page_id=1193"},"modified":"2019-12-17T19:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T00:09:12","slug":"1193-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/1193-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Intimacy Explored in Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Ntozake Shange<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/ef\/Ntozake_Shange%2C_Reid_Lecture%2C_Women_Issues_Luncheon%2C_Women%27s_Center%2C_November_1978_Crisco_edit.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for ntozake shange\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ntozake Shange&#8217;s work &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.smith.edu\/pluginfile.php\/735359\/mod_resource\/content\/1\/Shange%20For%20Colored%20Girl.pdf\">for colored girls who have considered suicide \/ when the rainbow is enuf<\/a>&#8221; is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/choreopoem\/\"><strong>choreopoem <\/strong><\/a>which explores and represents varying levels of black intimacy; its complications, sorrows, and pure joys. In this way, she grapples with the prevalent challenges of the black community (especially within girlhood), as well as the powerful connections and supports among black women. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The work shows that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">together, the black femme personal can combine and uplift; and that is highly political.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/cece-emily-and-ava\/\">\u00a0 Back To Main\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/the-taboo-of-young-black-sexuality\/\">Next Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ntozake Shange Ntozake Shange&#8217;s work &#8220;for colored girls who have considered suicide \/ when the rainbow is enuf&#8221; is a\u00a0choreopoem which explores and represents varying levels of black intimacy; its complications, sorrows, and pure joys. In this way, she grapples with the prevalent challenges of the black community (especially within girlhood), as well as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3507,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1193","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1193\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}