The Last Mama on the Couch

"The Last Mama on the Couch" is one exhibit in "The Colored Museum" written by George C. Wolfe.

Mama symbolizes wisdom, strength, nurture and faithfulness, the reason being is because mama guides her family, hold the family together from chaos, she is loving as well as comforting and she commends the Lord.

The author is satirizing the idea of black womanhood. Historically she was portrayed as a large, dark, black woman, who like the white true woman sets aside her sexuality to devote herself to her children.

"A Raisin in the Sun" is similar to this exhibit due to the two main characters who are Walter and Lena Younger (Son and mother). Walter is hard to get along with and he is nasty to pretty much every character in the play. Lena Younger is a down to earth, hard working black woman who can totally rock our world. "A Raisin in the Sun" is about The Younger family and how each family member wants to go about Mr. Younger's $10,000 for their own personal use, but each family member's personal use.
"For Colored Girls" has a perspective on what it is to be a black female in a the modern United States. The poems deal with abandonment, rape, abortion, and love.
"For Colored Girls" is similar to "The Last Mama on the Couch" and "A Raisin in the Sun" because the lady in the blue decides to have an abortion, the wife in a raisin in the sun is deciding whether to have an abortion, and lastly the wife in the last mama on the couch is on front stage, and her husband demands she makes him food, but instead he grabs to dolls and throws them out the window, which symbolizes her children.

Connecting the dots, "The Last Mama on the Couch" play satirizes major black theatrical responses to oppression from Lorraine Hansberry's emotive realism. Ntozake Shange play is a poetic feminism to race submerging classicism and the problem denying black musical.

Related ideas presented in the previous scene is the idea that has been presented in scenes “Git on Board" & “The Gospel According to Ms. Roj“ have also related to this scene because in all plays they satirize dancing and singing in different forms. Also, the scene is loud and energetic, with characters talking over one another, emphasizing the chaos and contradictions that make up the museum.

"Dancing to Live"
By "Dancing to live" the author is describing the importance of singing and dancing was to the African culture. In past history it was said that when the slaves where brought to America to work, the way they would communicate with each other and come together was through songs and dancing. It was a way to survive the atrocious life they where brought in.