Embracing Resilience: The Voices of Self-Determination, Healing, and Rediscovery of Self-Worth and Hope In For Colared Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the motif of self-determination of hope and healing from the humiliated and oppressed women in For Colored Girls/ Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Ntozake Shange is an African American writer in the US who has contributed to the persistent prejudices about black women and their bodies. For ages, black woman's bodies have been subjected to historical representations of their entanglement with slavery. The black women's voices are simultaneously treated as subjects of exploitation, supposition, and sub-humanization. Black bodies were forced into a process of oppressive system, which in turn promoted several stereotyped and disparaging images. Most unheard of, they were the only group described as "masculine," the only group and class of women seen as sex symbols. Black women were viewed as laborers, breeders, and objects of desire for white males. Black women's key concerns are poverty, marginalization, discrimination in the workplace, and powerlessness. Women of color have broken their long standing silence by sharing their tales of how they went from being invisible to visible and insecure to alert. They are winners despite having been wronged. Her play challenges conventional discourse by bringing the impossible to life and calling upon the obscure