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A Raisin in the Sun de Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun

Autor Lorraine Hansberry
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 ian 2027
"The play that changed American theater forever." —The New York Times

First produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and hailed as a watershed in American drama. Not only a pioneering work by a Black American playwright—Lorraine Hansberry’s play was also a radically new representation of Black life, resolutely authentic, fiercely unsentimental, and unflinching in its vision of what happens to people whose dreams are constantly deferred.

In her portrait of an embattled Chicago family, Hansberry anticipated issues that range from generational clashes to the civil rights and women’s movements. She also posed the essential questions—about identity, justice, and moral responsibility—at the heart of these great struggles. The result is an American classic.
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ISBN-13: 9798217008926
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Notă biografică

Lorraine Hansberry was a Black activist, artist, public intellectual, and writer. When her first play, A Raisin in the Sun, appeared on Broadway in 1959, she became the youngest American playwright, the fifth woman, and the only African American to date to win the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play. The play was a landmark and made it impossible for the American stage to ignore African American creativity and subject matter thereafter. On January 12, 1965, during the run of her second Broadway play—The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window—Lorraine Hansberry died of cancer. She was thirty-four. To Be Young, Gifted and Black, an autobiographical portrait in her own words, adapted by her former husband and literary executor, Robert Nemiroff, was posthumously produced in 1969. In 1970, Les Blancs, her play about the inevitability of struggle between colonizers and colonized in Africa and the impending crisis that would surely grow out of it, ran on Broadway to critical acclaim. She wrote numerous articles and essays on literary criticism, racism, sexism, homophobia, world peace, and other social and political issues. Her published writings also include The Drinking Gourd, What Use Are Flowers?, and The Movement. The Lorraine Hansberry Papers are located at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, a division of the New York Public Library.

Joi Gresham is literary trustee to the Estate of Lorraine Hansberry, where she oversees the multimedia licensing of Hansberry’s works and other intellectual properties. She is the daughter of Jewell Gresham-Nemiroff and Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry’s former husband and literary executor. Gresham was a producer of the 2014 Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun with Denzel Washington and the 2023 Broadway revival of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window with Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan. She is a writer and editor for print editions of Hansberry’s writings.

Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Idol Family Professor at Georgetown University. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the author of the award-winning book Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry. Colbert’s writing has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Public Books, and American Theatre. She was an associate director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. and served as a creative content producer for The Public Theater’s audio play shadow/land. She is currently at work on a group biography entitled Freedom’s Gate: Live at the New York Nightclub That Shaped the Civil Rights Movement.

Cuprins

Foreword by Joi Gresham Introduction by Robert Nemiroff Biographical Statement by Maria Gresham-Conant A Raisin in the Sun Act One Scene One Scene Two Act Two Scene One Scene Two Scene Three Act Three Editorische Notiz Black American English Literaturhinweise Nachwort

Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
A revised Student Edition of Lorraine Hansberry's iconic 1959 play - the first play produced on Broadway to be written by a Black woman.

Alongside the play text itself, this edition contains commentary and notes by Isaiah Wooden, which consider the play's:

> socio-historical context (including the Jim Crow laws and racial segregation in the US)

> major themes (including African-American identity, property ownership, and emergent Black feminist politics)

> structure and devices (including mid-20th century reality family dramas, "genuine realism" and Hansberry's use of music, dance and song in the play)

> production history (from the premiere production to the 2014 Broadway revival starring Denzel Washington and LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Dawn Walton's 2016 UK touring production)

> engagement with the play (including contemporary "response" pieces such as Neighbors by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris and Beneatha's Place by Kwame Kwei-Armah)

The notes section at the back of the edition contains definitions of terminology used in the play with which students may not be familiar.

Overall, this edition helps students to make sense of Hansberry's play and its politics through a contemporary lens, in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement, and in line with current debates around race, gender and class.

Recenzii

" A beautiful, lovable play. It is affectionately human, funny and touching. . . . A work of theatrical magic in which the usual barrier between audience and stage disappears."
John Chapman, "New York News"
" An honest, intelligible, and moving experience."
Walter Kerr, "New York Herald Tribune"
" Miss Hansberry has etched her characters with understanding, and told her story with dramatic impact. She has a keen sense of humor, an ear for accurate speech and compassion for people."
Robert Coleman, New York" Mirror"
" A Raisin in the Sun has vigor as well as veracity."
Brooks Atkinson," "New York" Times
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" It is honest drama, catching up real people. . . . It will make you proud of human beings."
Frank Aston, New York "World-Telegram & Sun"
" A wonderfully emotional evening."
John McClain, New York "Journal American
""From the Hardcover edition."