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Author: Steven R. Carter
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780252017490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis insightful study opens with an overview of Hansberry's cultural, social, political, and philosophical views and their relations to her artistic goals.
Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-11-02
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0307807444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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."
Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher:
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781781397398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: Philip U. Effiong
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780761817505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Search of a Model for African-American Drama, is a comparative study of how these three dramatists seek and devise new models to address the specific conditions of Blacks in America. Each writer relies on a different approach, each powerful, yet apparently contradictory. The author examines the dramatists' work in detail, exploring common and contrasting themes and models.
Author: Rebecca Ann Rugg
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012-04-15
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0810128136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Gary Wiener
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Published: 2011-02-10
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0737759275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Bruce A. Mcconachie
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2005-06
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1587294478
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1. A theater of containment liberalism -- 2. Empty boys, queer others, and consumerism -- 3. Family circles, racial others, and suburbanization -- 4. Fragmented heroes, female others, and the bomb.
Author: Judd Woldin
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780573680861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased 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
Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780573615412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Jacqueline Foertsch
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-09-16
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1137605294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential introductory textbook that guides students through 300 years of American plays, as well as their remarkable engagement with texts from across the Atlantic. Divided into seven historical periods, Jacqueline Foertsch offers unique overviews of 38 American plays and their reception, from Robert Hunter's Androboros (c.1714) to Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2015). Each historical section begins with an overseas play that proved influential to American playwrights in that period, demonstrating to students an astonishing dialogue taking place across the Atlantic. This is an ideal core text for modules on American Drama – or a supplementary text for broader modules on American Literature – which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate literature, drama, theatre studies or American studies degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying American drama as part of a taught postgraduate degree in literature, drama or American studies.
