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“Reading Ntozake Shange’s Male Character: sean david in a photograph: lovers in motion.” Studies on English Language & Literature. 36.1(2010): 65-85. Ntozake Shange’s characterization of the black male characters on stage has urged the black male critics to criticize her works as a black feminist’s ruthless and unjustified attack on all black men. Yet a closer look at and reading black male characters in Shange’s a photograph: lovers in action shows that Shange reserves sympathy for them. In a photograph: lovers in motion redefines Shange manhood as jealousy, emotional vulnerability and sensitivity often attributed to female characters. Shange wants the audience to understand black men’s vulnerability is not far from that of black women. Shange believes that with this understanding black men and women are able to work together against racist society that victimizes them both. (Chonbuk National University)