Analysis Of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide By Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry is an African American filmmaker, actor, playwright, and much more. Perry is well known in the African American community for his multiple works of art which almost always embodies the struggles that are often faced in the black community. Specifically, Perry chose to create an adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, which is a well-known text that expresses the struggles face by “colored” women. Within the adaptation Perry incorporates the eloquent language of Shange’s poems into a plot that further explores the lives of colored women in the modern world. Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls narrative depicts a voiceless and suppressed group of African American women who are negatively affected by racism and sexism. Specifically, this text exposes the disparities among women of color.

Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf first debuted on stage in 1974. Through monologues Shange poetically explores what is to be a woman of color in the present world. The choreopoem consists

The text does a great job of exemplifying the women’s story, point of view, and experiences of the colored woman. Perry’s adaptation breaks the silence on sensitive topics such as sexual abuse, abortion, and rape and brings awareness to the audience. In Ruth Nicole Brown’s Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-hop Feminist Pedagogy she states, “Black girls’ and women’s voices too often remain invisible and not valued at a time when our bodies are most commodified, consumed, and made hypervisual in popular cultures” (Brown, 39). Women of color are often subject to inequalities and are victims to the environment that surrounds them. Also the male subject plays an immense role in the negativity and the discrimination faced by