Ntozake Shange's Multilingual Poetics of Relation.

Shange, Ntozake, 1948-2018; Quality of life; Multilingualism; Cosmopolitanism; Transnational education; Learning; Poets

An essay is presented on learning the languages of the Western Hemisphere. It highlights the use of multilingualism of Spanish and English languages in poetry and literary works of American playwright and poet Ntozake Shange. It stresses the representations of Shange's multilingual poetics as expression of cosmopolitanism. It also adds the role of transnational identity and community in understanding the social life in Western America.