Proper

Abstract

There have been quite a lot of African American female writers in American history who have written about their mournful reality in their works. They have unceasingly focused on African American women's double identity in American society. They tried hard to delineate African American women's life through their writing and text grounded on their first-hand experience. Among them, Ntozake Shange was the one who revealed African American women's devastation and practiced their feminism in the text through her unique autobiographical writing. Nevertheless, Shange tried hard to embrace African American women's positive attitude and their limitless beauty in her works, especially in 『for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf』and 『Black Girls』.
Shange proudly argued African American women's right and their self identity in her works against the discourse of Western white men. She clearly claimed how the white men suppressed, depreciated and abused African American women and their body.
The study on Shange's writing and text in this paper will be examined in the same view of Helen Cixious who insisted that a feminine writing was developed by containing the coexist of various voices in the form of reciprocal text. Shange constantly tried hard to embrace African American women's speech and behavior in this new genre of writing and text. Twenty poems she wrote was performed on the stage to reproduce their life story and she quilted their anger, sadness and custom in the text of collage. The use of autobiographical writing and the technique of collage let Shange burst out African American women's vivid life in the form of art. I would like to show that Shange's this trying made us understand and approach African American women's vision in the category of harmony and integration.