The Wonders of Weaving

InSassafras, Cypress & Indigo, Ntozake Shange uses textile weaving as a source of strength and comfort for Sassafras when she is feeling low. After being abused and leaving her boyfriend Mitch, Sassafras leaves LA to be with her sister in San Francisco. “…the cold she felt continually reminded her of being alone – forsaken, she…

Womanly Work as an Integral Structure: Weaving Together Society

We quickly learn that the loom in Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is of particular importance. Each daughter possesses something that early on acts to signal to the reader the divergent paths they are to take. For Cypress this is dance, for Indigo her dolls that act as her link to a different world, and for…