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| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, 2004-11-29 Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage, observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem Harlem, which warns that a dream deferred might dry up/like a raisin in the sun. The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun, said The New York Times. It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, 2016-11-01 A Raisin in the Sun reflects Lorraine Hansberry's childhood experiences in segregated Chicago. This electrifying masterpiece has enthralled audiences and has been heaped with critical accolades. The play that changed American theatre forever - The New York Times. Edition Description |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun Charles J. Shields, 2022-01-18 The moving story of the life of the woman behind A Raisin in the Sun, the most widely anthologized, read, and performed play of the American stage, by the New York Times bestselling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee Written when she was just twenty-eight, Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by the National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of the twentieth century. Hansberry was the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway, and the first Black and youngest American playwright to win a New York Critics’ Circle Award. Charles J. Shields’s authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century’s most admired playwrights examines the parts of Lorraine Hansberry’s life that have escaped public knowledge: the influence of her upper-class background, her fight for peace and nuclear disarmament, the reason why she embraced Communism during the Cold War, and her dependence on her white husband—her best friend, critic, and promoter. Many of the identity issues about class, sexuality, and race that she struggled with are relevant and urgent today. This dramatic telling of a passionate life—a very American life through self-reinvention—uses previously unpublished interviews with close friends in politics and theater, privately held correspondence, and deep research to reconcile old mysteries and raise new questions about a life not fully described until now. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun Rebecca Ann Rugg, Harvey Young, 2012-04-15 This book is a collection of four contemporary plays that reflect the themes of racial and cultural difference of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Gender in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun Gary Wiener, 2011-02-10 The landmark play A Raisin in the Sun takes its title from a Langston Hughes poem which poses the questions What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Focusing on a working-class African-American family in Chicago who save enough to purchase either a business in a black neighborhood or a house in a white neighborhood, the plays exposes issues of racism and gender as the women of the family make important decisions that push against both racial and gender lines. This volume discusses gender in the play, looking at how the female characters fight both racism and male chauvinism, how the play is dominated by strong female characters, and how characters resist the stereotype of the emasculating female. The book also presents contemporary perspectives on race and feminism in the twenty-first century. Contributors include Barbara Ehrenreich, Jewelle L. Gomez, and Sharon Friedman. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: A Reader's Guide to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun Pamela Loos, 2008-01-01 Presents a critique and analysis of A Raisin in the Sun, discussing the plot, themes, dramatic devices, and major characters in the play, and includes a brief overview of Hansberry's other works. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose, 2006-08-29 A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David Mamet A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases. Reginald Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture to form of them—and of America, at its best and worst. After the critically acclaimed teleplay aired in 1954, this landmark American drama went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. More recently, Twelve Angry Men had a successful, and award-winning, run on Broadway. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Raisin Judd Woldin, Robert Nemiroff, Charlotte Zaltzberg, Robert Brittan, 1978 Based on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Musical Drama / 9m, 6f, chorus and extras / Unit set This winner of Tony and Grammy awards as Best Musical ran for three years on Broadway and enjoyed a record breaking national tour. A proud family's quest for a better life meets conflicts that span three generations and set the stage for a drama rich in emotion and laughter. Taking place on Chicago's Southside, it explodes in song, dance, drama and comedy. Pure magic ... dazzling! Tremen |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Looking for Lorraine Imani Perry, 2018-09-18 Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now. In 2018, Hansberry will get the recognition she deserves with the PBS American Masters documentary “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” and Imani Perry’s multi-dimensional, illuminating biography, Looking for Lorraine. After the success of A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry used her prominence in myriad ways: challenging President Kennedy and his brother to take bolder stances on Civil Rights, supporting African anti-colonial leaders, and confronting the romantic racism of the Beat poets and Village hipsters. Though she married a man, she identified as lesbian and, risking censure and the prospect of being outed, joined one of the nation’s first lesbian organizations. Hansberry associated with many activists, writers, and musicians, including Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, among others. Looking for Lorraine is a powerful insight into Hansberry’s extraordinary life—a life that was tragically cut far too short. A Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Nonfiction A 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize Finalist |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Lorraine Hansberry, 1986 This is the probing, hilarious and provocative story of Sidney, a disenchanted Greenwich Village intellectual, his wife Iris, an aspiring actress, and their colorful circle of friends and relations. Set against the shenanigans of a stormy political campaign, the play follows its characters in their unorthodox quests for meaningful lives in an age of corruption, alienation and cynicism. With compassion, humor and poignancy, the author examines questions concerning the fragility of love, morality and ethics, interracial relationships, drugs, rebellion, conformity and especially withdrawal from or commitment to the world. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun , 1996-03-21 The author writes of her childhood experiences with racism. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, 1984 The Broadway revival of 'A Raisin in the Sun' was produced by Scott Rudin at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on April 3, 2014. The production was directed by Kenny Leon, with set design by Mark Thompson...--Page [9]. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Radical Vision Soyica Diggs Colbert, 2021-04-20 A captivating portrait of Lorraine Hansberry's life, art, and political activism--one of O Magazine's best books of April 2021 Hits the mark as a fresh and timely portrait of an influential playwright.--Publishers Weekly In this biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, Soyica Diggs Colbert considers the playwright's life at the intersection of art and politics, with the theater operating as a rehearsal room for [her] political and intellectual work. Colbert argues that the success of Raisin overshadows Hansberry's other contributions, including the writer's innovative journalism and lesser known plays touching on controversial issues such as slavery, interracial communities, and black freedom movements. Colbert also details Hansberry's unique involvement in the black freedom struggles during the Cold War and the early civil rights movement, in order to paint a full portrait of her life and impact. Drawing from Hansberry's papers, speeches, and interviews, this book presents its subject as both a playwright and a political activist. It also reveals a new perspective on the roles of black women in mid-twentieth-century political movements. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays Lorraine Hansberry, 1994-12-13 Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun. Textanalyse und Interpretation. Königs Erläuterungen Spezial Lorraine Hansberry, 2019 |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Faith, Hope, and Ivy June Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, 2009-06-09 When push comes to shove, two Kentucky girls find strength in each other. Ivy June Mosely and Catherine Combs, two girls from different parts of Kentucky, are participating in the first seventh-grade student exchange program between their schools. The girls will stay at each other’s homes, attend school together, and record their experience in their journals. Catherine and her family have a beautiful home with plenty of space. Since Ivy June’s house is crowded, she lives with her grandparents. Her Pappaw works in the coal mines supporting four generations of kinfolk. Ivy June can’t wait until he leaves that mine forever and retires. As the girls get closer, they discover they’re more alike than different, especially when they face the terror of not knowing what’s happening to those they love most. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, 1994 |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: The Scarred Letter Val Muller, 2014-06-24 Heather Primm never anticipated that a single blog post could ruin her life. Heather's scoop about steroid use by key players on the school football team sets off an investigation that strips the Orchard Valley Thunderbolts of their state title-and earns Heather a coveted journalism prize. Hated by those involved in the scandal, despised by jealous members of the newspaper staff, ignored by her newly-popular ex-boyfriend, and even berated by her mother, Heather is attacked and a chilling T is carved into her face. Now stigmatized as a traitor, she becomes the object of scorn for nearly all of Orchard Valley High. But when the school offers to send her to a private academy to hush up the matter, Heather is forced to make a decision. Should she refuse to allow fear to control her life by holding to the truth, or accept the chance to escape and build a new life? Written by a veteran English teacher, The Scarred Letter weaves themes from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter into an accessible, intelligent tale of modern isolation and a young woman's quest for truth and acceptance. Authentic reboot of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter for today's readers. Heather Primm publishes the truth on her blog and pays an appalling price. It's up to Heather's younger sister to remind her what's true and what's not--and help her find a way forward. A powerful book. -- Adele Abbot, author, Of Machines & Magics and Postponing Armageddon High school becomes the perfect substitute for Hawthorne's Puritan society in this accessible take on The Scarlet Letter. Surrounded by ruthless cliques and wannabe outsiders, Heather finds out just how hard standing up for yourself and your beliefs can be. A powerful message for readers of all ages. -- Sheri S. Levy, author, Seven Days to Goodbye |
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| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: The Girl Who Flew Away Val Muller, 2017-03-07 No good deed goes unpunished when freshman Steffie Brenner offers to give her awkward new neighbor a ride home after her first day at school. When her older sister Ali stops at a local park to apply for a job, Steffie and Madison slip out of the car to explore the park--and Madison vanishes. Already in trouble for a speeding ticket, Ali insists that Steffie say nothing about Madison's disappearance. Even when Madison's mother comes looking for her. Even when the police question them. Some secrets are hard to hide, though--especially with Madison's life on the line. As she struggles between coming clean or going along with her manipulative sister's plan, Steffie begins to question if she or anyone else is really who she thought they were. After all, the Steffie she used to know would never lie about being the last person to see Madison alive--nor would she abandon a friend in the woods: alone, cold, injured, or even worse. But when Steffie learns an even deeper secret about her own past, a missing person seems like the least of her worries... |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Claudette Colvin Phillip Hoose, 2010-12-21 When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' - Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history. Claudette Colvin is the National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, a Newbery Honor Book, A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: You Can't Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe, 2011-10-11 Now available from Thomas Wolfe’s original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend, that “will stand apart from everything else that he wrote” (The New York Times Book Review)—first published in 1940 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature. A twentieth-century classic, Thomas Wolfe’s magnificent novel is both the story of a young writer longing to make his mark upon the world and a sweeping portrait of America and Europe from the Great Depression through the years leading up to World War II. Driven by dreams of literary success, George Webber has left his provincial hometown to make his name as a writer in New York City. When his first novel is published, it brings him the fame he has sought, but it also brings the censure of his neighbors back home, who are outraged by his depiction of them. Unsettled by their reaction and unsure of himself and his future, Webber begins a search for a greater understanding of his artistic identity that takes him deep into New York’s hectic social whirl; to London with an uninhibited group of expatriates; and to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler’s shadow. He discovers a world plagued by political uncertainty and on the brink of transformation, yet he finds within himself the capacity to meet it with optimism and a renewed love for his birthplace. He is a changed man yet a hopeful one, awake to the knowledge that one can never fully “go back home to your family, back home to your childhood…away from all the strife and conflict of the world…back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time.” |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Planetary Solidarity Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Hilda P. Koster, 2017-08-23 Planetary Solidarity brings together leading Latina, womanist, Asian American, Anglican American, South American, Asian, European, and African woman theologians on the issues of doctrine, women, and climate justice. Because women make up the majority of the world's poor and tend to be more dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods and survival, they are more vulnerable when it comes to climate-related changes and catastrophes. Representing a subfield of feminist theology that uses doctrine as interlocutor, this book ask how Christian doctrine might address the interconnected suffering of women and the earth in an age of climate change. While doctrine has often stifled change, it also forms the thread that weaves Christian communities together. Drawing on postcolonial ecofeminist/womanist analysis and representing different ecclesial and denominational traditions, contributors use doctrine to envision possibilities for a deep solidarity with the earth and one another while addressing the intersection of gender, race, class, and ethnicity. The book is organized around the following doctrines: creation, the triune God, anthropology, sin, incarnation, redemption, the Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, and eschatology. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: The Captain's Death Bed & Other Essays Virginia Woolf, 2017-12-06 These twenty-five short essays demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Woolf is admired. This book contains...the same delicious things to read as always....Virginia Woolf was a great artist, one of the glories of our time, and she never published a line that was not worth reading (Katherine Anne Porter). Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Mockingbird Charles J. Shields, 2016-04-26 An extensively revised and updated edition of the bestselling biography of Harper Lee, reframed from the perspective of the recent publication of Lee's Go Set a Watchman To Kill a Mockingbird—the twentieth century's most widely read American novel—has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. In this in-depth biography, first published in 2006, Charles J. Shields brings to life the woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable characters, Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout. Years after its initial publication—with revisions throughout the book and a new epilogue—Shields finishes the story of Harper Lee's life, up to its end. There's her former agent getting her to transfer the copyright for To Kill a Mockingbird to him, the death of Lee's dear sister Alice, a fuller portrait of Lee’s editor, Tay Hohoff, and—most vitally—the release of Lee's long-buried first novel and the ensuing public devouring of what has truly become the book of the year, if not the decade: Lee's Go Set a Watchman. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Behind the Bookcase Barbara Lowell, 2020-09-01 Anne Frank’s diary is a gift to the world because of Miep Gies. One of the protectors of the Frank family, Miep recovered the diary after the family was discovered by Nazis, and then returned it to Otto Frank after World War II. Displaced from her own home as a child during World War I, Miep had great empathy for Anne, and she found ways—like talking about Hollywood gossip and fashion trends—to engage her. The story of their relationship—and the impending danger to the family in hiding—unfolds in this unique perspective of Anne Frank’s widely known story. A historically accurate but relatively gentle introduction to the Holocaust for elementary-age readers.—Miriam Aronin, Booklist Author and illustrator do not deny Miep Gies’s extraordinary heroism but frame it as a natural response to the events of her life and the depth of her emotional involvement in her Jewish compatriots’ tragedy.—Emily Schneider, Jewish Book Council A solid, additional title that can serve as an introduction to Holocaust literature.—Kathleen Isaacs, School Library Journal |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, 1959 The award-winning, now classic drama about a working-class African-American family on the South Side of Chicago--their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: The Panther and the Lash Langston Hughes, 2011-10-26 Hughes's last collection of poems commemorates the experience of Black Americans in a voice that no reader could fail to hear—the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time. “Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature ... a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color. Here, Hughes's voice—sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, always powerful—is more pointed than ever before, as he explicitly addresses the racial politics of the sixties in such pieces as Prime, Motto, Dream Deferred, Frederick Douglas: 1817-1895, Still Here, Birmingham Sunday. History, Slave, Warning, and Daybreak in Alabama. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Thronebreakers Rebecca Coffindaffer, 2021-10-12 Perfect for fans of Aurora Rising, The Hunger Games, and Three Dark Crowns, this electrifying duology closer is jam-packed with tension and thrills that will hook readers from its first page. Alyssa Farshot never wanted to rule the empire. But to honor her uncle’s dying wish, she participated in the crownchase, a race across the empire’s 1,001 planets to find the royal seal and win the throne. Alyssa tried to help her friend, Coy, win the crownchase, but just as victory was within their grasp, Edgar Voles killed Coy—and claimed the seal for himself. Broken-hearted over her friend’s death, Alyssa is hell-bent on revenge. But Edgar is well protected in the kingship. Alyssa will have to rally rivals, friends, and foes from across the empire to take him down and change the course of the galaxy. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Crownchasers Rebecca Coffindaffer, 2020-09-29 A deadly race across 1,001 planets will determine more than just the fate of the empire. This explosive first book in a duology jam-packed with tension and thrills is perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Aurora Rising, and Three Dark Crowns. Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy, even leaving behind the Kingship and her uncle, the emperor, for a life of exploring. But when her dying uncle announces a crownchase—a search for the royal seal hidden in the empire that will determine the next ruler—Alyssa is thrust into her greatest, most dangerous adventure yet. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: A Memory for Wonders Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard, 1993 Here for the first time is a captivating autobiography of a French girl raised in the wild Moroccan frontier by her communist parents who fled France and vowed that no one would speak to her of God and influence the development of her mind with oppressive superstition. Everything in her education, environment and training was targeted toward making her a perfect product of Marxist atheism. She sucked anti-Catholicism with her mother's milk. But God had other plans for Lucette. Emotionally neglected by her parents, Lucette became a difficult child leading a colorful life full of mischievous adventure all the while experiencing an unutterable loneliness. But the Hound of Heaven was gently pursuing her. At the age of three, upon witnessing the overwhelming beauty of a sunset after a violent sirocco sand storm, she gained the unshakable certainty that this beauty was created, and that there was a God. She began to pray. That was the first link in a chain of remarkable events that grace alone could forge, which led her to embrace the faith and become a Poor Clare nun in Algiers. Disowned by her parents, she put all her trust in Him for whom all things are possible. Her faith was rewarded with a dramatic answer to the prayers of her heart. Lucette, now Mother Veronica Namoyo, is an Abbess and foundress of two flourishing monasteries in Africa. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone James Baldwin, 2013-09-17 A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war. Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers. —Saturday Review At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is overpowering in its vitality and extravagant in the intensity of its feeling. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters, 2012-03-02 DIVAn American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives. /div |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Gender in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun Gary Wiener, 2011-02-10 The landmark play A Raisin in the Sun takes its title from a Langston Hughes poem which poses the questions What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Focusing on a working-class African-American family in Chicago who save enough to purchase either a business in a black neighborhood or a house in a white neighborhood, the plays exposes issues of racism and gender as the women of the family make important decisions that push against both racial and gender lines. This volume discusses gender in the play, looking at how the female characters fight both racism and male chauvinism, how the play is dominated by strong female characters, and how characters resist the stereotype of the emasculating female. The book also presents contemporary perspectives on race and feminism in the twenty-first century. Contributors include Barbara Ehrenreich, Jewelle L. Gomez, and Sharon Friedman. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Cora Cassidy and the Craven Corgi Val Muller, 2014-11-08 Raven the corgi is afraid of . . . everything! During a snowstorm, Raven cowers in fear, remembering the scariest parts of each season: snow-monsters, b-b-b-aths, sea creatures, whistling wind . . . Meanwhile, Raven's person, Cora, comforts the pup, remembering the best each season has to offer. Living in fear, Raven is unable to enjoy the magic that each day brings. Can Cora's optimism convince the corgi to find warmth, love, and joy in each season and each day? Written in verse and beautifully illustrated, Cora Cassidy and the Craven Corgi is perfect for reading aloud at bedtime. Inspired by real-life fraidy-dog Yoda, the book was written by author of the Corgi Capers mystery series with the belief that we can find something magic every day of our lives. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Joe Papp: An American Life Helen Epstein, 2019-07-31 Joseph Papp (1921-1991), theater producer, champion of human rights and of the First Amendment, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and Public Theater, changed the American cultural landscape. Born Yussel Papirofsky in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he discovered Shakespeare in public school and first produced a show on an aircraft carrier during World War II. After a stint at the Actors’ Lab in Hollywood, he moved to New York, where he worked as a CBS stage manager during the golden age of television. He fought Parks Commissioner Robert Moses (as well as Mayors Wagner, Lindsay, Beame and Koch) winning first the right to stage free Shakespeare in New York’s Central Park, then municipal funding to keep it going. He built the Delacorte Theater and later rebuilt the former Astor Library on Lafayette Street, transforming it into the Public Theater. In addition to helping create an American style of Shakespeare, Papp pioneered colorblind casting and theater as a not-for-profit institution. He showcased playwrights David Rabe, Elizabeth Swados, Ntozake Shange, David Hare, Wallace Shawn, John Guare, and Vaclav Havel; directors Michael Bennett, Wilford Leach and James Lapine; actors Al Pacino, Colleen Dewhurst, George C. Scott, James Earl Jones, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Sam Waterston, and Denzel Washington; and produced Hair, Sticks and Bones, for colored girls, The Normal Heart, and A Chorus Line, the longest running musical in Broadway history. This first biography of the late Joseph Papp will be a hard act to follow. — Booklist The final portrait that emerges might have been jointly painted by Goya, Whistler and Francis Bacon. — Benedict Nightingale, front-page New York Times Sunday Book Review Playwright Tony Kushner called Papp one of the very few heroes this tawdry, timid business has produced and the book, a nourishing and juicy biography. Helen Epstein recounts [Papp's] career in [this] definitive, meticulously researched and highly readable biography. [...] It is a tribute to Epstein’s narrative skill that the detailed account of Papp’s decline and eventual defeat by cancer [...] reads as both riveting and horrifying. — Ellen Schiff, All About Jewish Theatre Oklahoma-born Paul Davis created 51 iconic posters for Joseph Papp, starting in 1975 with the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Hamlet starring Sam Waterston. It was inspiring to work with Joe, says Davis. We would discuss what he wanted to achieve in a production, and he trusted me to find a way to express it. And he respected the poster as its own dramatic form. The artist’s work has been exhibited in the U.S., Europe and Japan. He is a recipient of a special Drama Desk award created for his theater art. Davis was elected to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame and the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame, and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: The Movement Lorraine Hansberry, 1964 Hundreds of black & white photographs chronicling the civil rights movement. Captions and accompanying text by Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright. Photographers include Danny Lyon, Don Charles, Norris McNamara, Frank Dandridge and others. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Faulkner's Apprentice Val Muller, 2013-04 Lorelei Cecelia Franklin broke a twenty-year streak of bad luck when she won the L. Cameron Faulkner fiction contest. Apprenticed to the reclusive and famous author, Lorei will spend three weeks with the master of horror himself in the secluded mountains of Virginia. On her way to Faulkner's mansion, Lorei meets a leathery man who snares souls that desire too much, and everything in the mansion screams warnings against him. But with her lust for Faulkner, her appetite for fame, and her wish to protect her ailing mother, Lorei's chances for escape are slim. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Frederick Douglass William Miller, Cedric Lucas, 1996-09 The story of the famous abolitionist, who in one dramatic incident, discovers the true meaning of freedom. |
| a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry: Civil Rights Queen Tomiko Brown-Nagin, 2023-03-07 With the US Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, “it makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly shaped the law: Constance Baker Motley” (CNN). The first major biography of one of our most influential judges—an activist lawyer who became the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary—that provides an eye-opening account of the twin struggles for gender equality and civil rights in the 20th Century. “A must-read for anyone who dares to believe that equal justice under the law is possible and is in search of a model for how to make it a reality.” —Anita Hill Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue. The only black woman member in the legal team at the NAACP's Inc. Fund at the time, she defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs. The Board of Education, and played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South. She was the first black woman elected to the state Senate in New York, the first woman elected Manhattan Borough President, and the first black woman appointed to the federal judiciary. Civil Rights Queen captures the story of a remarkable American life, a figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country. Burnished with an extraordinary wealth of research, award-winning, esteemed Civil Rights and legal historian and dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Tomiko Brown-Nagin brings Motley to life in these pages. Brown-Nagin compels us to ponder some of our most timeless and urgent questions--how do the historically marginalized access the corridors of power? What is the price of the ticket? How does access to power shape individuals committed to social justice? In Civil Rights Queen, she dramatically fills out the picture of some of the most profound judicial and societal change made in twentieth-century America. |
A Raisin in the Sun - Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
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Lorraine Hansberry wrote an important and famous play called A Raisin in the Sun. Actors performed it for the first time on Broadway in New York City in 1959. The play became famous …
Lorraine Hansberry as Ironist: A Reappraisal of A Raisin in the Sun
"clearly represents Lorraine Hansberry's own faith" in the inevitability of change built on courage and compassion (Bigsby, 1967: 16 1). But the fact is that the phrase, "a raisin in the sun," does …
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In 1959, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry became the first play by a black female playwright to be produced on Broadway, where it amassed commercial success and critical …
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t the time of her death in 1965 at the age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry was recognized as one of America’s leading playwrights. That recognition rested primarily on her much-acclaimed …
STUDY GUIDE A Raisin in the Sun - A Noise Within
Lorraine Hansberry is best know for her work, A Raisin in the Sun, a play about a struggling black family, which opened on Broadway to great success. Hansberry was the first African American …
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‘A RAISIN IN THE SUN’ by Lorraine Hansberry BENEATHA: Me?... Me?... Me, I’m nothing… Me. When I was very small…we used to take our sleds out in the wintertime and the only hills we …
The Racial Tensions Depicted in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in …
The drama titled “A Raisin in the Sun” written by Lorraine Hansberry depicts the lives of African Americans living in Chicago. This play is about the Younger family who strives to improve their …
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A Raisin in the Sun explores not only the tension between white and black society but also the strain within the black community over how to react to an oppressive white community.
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Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun (1959) deals with the impact of racism on the life of the Younger, a poor black family living in the South Side of Chicago. As the play demonstrates, …
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A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry (1959) Debatable Issues
A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry (1959) Debatable Issues There are three debatable issues that will guide our classroom argumentation on the New York Drama Critics’ Circle …
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Adding Lorraine Hansberry to this list demonstrates how the South maintains an important presence in the African American search for roots and usable histories even among authors …
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examines the issue of racism in the literary works of Lorraine Hansberry, an African American Playwright and author of political speeches, letters and essays. Taking for study her best …
To Be a Man: A Re-Assessment of Black Masculinity in Lorraine …
Assessment of Black Masculinity in Lorraine Hansberry’s. A Raisin in the Sun. and . Les Blancs . Julie M. Burrell. Abstract. The first Black woman to pen a Broadway play, Lorraine Hansberry …
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‘American Dream’. Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun determines how the political, social, economical and educational climate of the 1950s affected the African Americans quest for …
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Raisin in the Sun. It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic”; “… one of a handful of great American dramas … A Raisin in the Sun belongs in the inner circle, along with Death of a Salesman, Long Day’s Journey into Night, and The Glass Menagerie.” So wrote The New York Times and the Washington Post respectively of ...
A Raisin in the Sun - Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
23 Mar 2015 · Lorraine Hansberry distinguished and their primary feature now is that they have clearly had to accommodate the living of too many people for too many years—and they are tired.
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Lorraine Hansberry wrote an important and famous play called A Raisin in the Sun. Actors performed it for the first time on Broadway in New York City in 1959. The play became famous very quickly. The New York Drama Critic’s Circle called it the best play of 1959. Many writers and theater experts say that it is one of the best plays ever written.
Lorraine Hansberry as Ironist: A Reappraisal of A Raisin in the Sun …
"clearly represents Lorraine Hansberry's own faith" in the inevitability of change built on courage and compassion (Bigsby, 1967: 16 1). But the fact is that the phrase, "a raisin in the sun," does not embody all of the thematic tensions in Hughes' poem. On the contrary, it is one of the ominous negatives which counterbalance positive ...
Assimilation, nostalgia and African American identity in Lorraine ...
In 1959, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry became the first play by a black female playwright to be produced on Broadway, where it amassed commercial success and critical acclaim.1 Set in South Side Chicago, the play follows the Younger family as they attempt to improve their social and financial circumstances using the $10,000 life insu...
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t the time of her death in 1965 at the age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry was recognized as one of America’s leading playwrights. That recognition rested primarily on her much-acclaimed play, “A Raisin in the Sun.” On the surface, it is a very deceptive play, appearing to …
STUDY GUIDE A Raisin in the Sun - A Noise Within
Lorraine Hansberry is best know for her work, A Raisin in the Sun, a play about a struggling black family, which opened on Broadway to great success. Hansberry was the first African American playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award. Throughout her life, she was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement ...
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‘A RAISIN IN THE SUN’ by Lorraine Hansberry BENEATHA: Me?... Me?... Me, I’m nothing… Me. When I was very small…we used to take our sleds out in the wintertime and the only hills we had were the ice-covered stone steps of some houses down the street. And we used to fill them in
The Racial Tensions Depicted in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
The drama titled “A Raisin in the Sun” written by Lorraine Hansberry depicts the lives of African Americans living in Chicago. This play is about the Younger family who strives to improve their social life and financial circumstances. Furthermore, the story revolves around the
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A Raisin in the Sun explores not only the tension between white and black society but also the strain within the black community over how to react to an oppressive white community.
I Have a Dream Racial Discrimination in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin ...
Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun (1959) deals with the impact of racism on the life of the Younger, a poor black family living in the South Side of Chicago. As the play demonstrates, the Younger suffer from racial discrimination in housing industry, living space, and employment. Their attempt to challenge the racist policies
UNIT 12: LORRAINE HANSBERRY’S A RAISIN IN THE SUN …
Lorraine Hansberry’s Marxist literary criticism maintains that a writer’s social class, and its A Raisin in The Sun as a Marxist Play prevailing ‘ideology’ – outlook, values, tacit assumptions, and the like – have a major bearing on what is written by a member of that class. So
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according to these men, Lorraine Hansberry has arrived. Importantly, these three men have "legitimated" A Raisin in the Sun - for each con-cludes that it is indeed a master-piece. Nemiroff, Rich and Baraka have not only established this, but they have also provided guide-lines and script interpretations for the reader. Nemiroff contends that ...
A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry (1959) Debatable Issues
A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry (1959) Debatable Issues There are three debatable issues that will guide our classroom argumentation on the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award winning play A Raisin in the Sun. Debatable Issue #1 Independence, autonomy, and self-sufficiency – these
The Roof of a Southern Home: A Reimagined and Usable South in Lorraine …
Adding Lorraine Hansberry to this list demonstrates how the South maintains an important presence in the African American search for roots and usable histories even among authors who were born and raised in the North.
RACISM IN LORRAINE HANSBERRY’S A RAISIN IN THE SUN
examines the issue of racism in the literary works of Lorraine Hansberry, an African American Playwright and author of political speeches, letters and essays. Taking for study her best known work, A Raisin in the Sun, which was inspired by her family‘s legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the
To Be a Man: A Re-Assessment of Black Masculinity in Lorraine Hansberry ...
Assessment of Black Masculinity in Lorraine Hansberry’s. A Raisin in the Sun. and . Les Blancs . Julie M. Burrell. Abstract. The first Black woman to pen a Broadway play, Lorraine Hansberry scripted a majority of male protagonists. Critics tend to see Hansberry’s depiction of Black men as either an unfortunate
The Aspect American Dream in Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”
‘American Dream’. Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun determines how the political, social, economical and educational climate of the 1950s affected the African Americans quest for American Dream. Each character in the play longs for an appropriate occasion to …
