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Kim, Jeongho. “A Semiotic Study of Signifying Process of Black Feminism Drama through ntozake shange’s for colored girls.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.3 (2011): 49-68. Semiotics is concerned not so much with what things mean, but how they mean. It is the study of how meanings come about and are constructed in society. Semiotics is important and useful to the study of black feminism drama as a signifying practice because it helps account for the text and its signification. A semiotic approach to shange’s discursive strategy such as vernacular expression, resistance to normative language and story, disruption of conventional narratives and collective interactions of many genres together opens up the plurality of multi-layered meanings and thematic politics of the black feminism dramas. Her choreopoem is best described as decolonizing discourse in which colored subjects confront and liberate themselves from different kinds of oppressive structures. (Chonbuk National University)