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LilianeNtozake Shange

Liliane

Ntozake Shange
1994288 pages
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In Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter, Ntozake Shange brings the strands of memories, dreams, and expectations of a young black woman's life into ours. Through the voices of her childhood friends, Roxie, Lollie, and Bernadette, we encounter the last moments of legal segregation in Mississippi and the beginnings of class war within the black community of Queens. The voices of her lovers, Victor-Jesus, Zoom, Thayer, and Sawyer, reveal Liliane in the more closeted dynamics of romance, both colored and not so colored. But it is in her own works as an artist that Liliane reveals most of what…

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6 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2011
    St. Martin's Griffin · 288 pages · 9780312644109
  • Paperback · English · 1995
    Picador · 304 pages · 9780312135591
  • Other · English · 2011
    Picador · 9781429913515
  • Other · English · 1996
    Penguin Random House · 9780749395254
  • Other · English · 1995
    Methuen · 288 pages · 9780413694409
  • Other · English · 1994
    St. Martin's Press · 288 pages · 9780312113100
FictionPsychotherapist and patientAfrican American women artistsYoung womenAfrican AmericansPsychological fictionAfrican americans, fictionWomen artists, fiction