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Lorraine Hansberry : the life behind A raisin in the sun

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"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 This dramatic telling of a passionate life-a very American life through self-reinvention-uses previously unpublished interviews with close friends in politics and theater, privately held correspondence, and deep research to reconcile old mysteries and raise new questions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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Chronology
Introduction
Part I: Chicago. Infant of the spring
"
The king of the kitchenettes"

Stay where you belong
American princess
Part II: Madison, Wisconsin. Entering into a romance
The young progressives
Mexico
Part III: Harlem. "
Flag from a kitchenette window"

Freedom
"
A young Harriet Tubman"

The passport
"
I do love you"

Part IV: Greenwich Village. Camp unity
"
One becomes a woman"

"
I ain't sick"

"
Cindy, oh Cindy"

The invisible lesbian
Part V: The great white way. "
Go the way your blood beats"

"
Something urgently on its way"

Dismantling the master's house
Chitterlin' heights
Epilogue.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9781250205520
  • ISBN: 1250205530
  • ISBN: 9781250205537
  • Physical Description: xiv, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Chronology
Introduction
Part I: Chicago. Infant of the spring
"The king of the kitchenettes"
Stay where you belong
American princess
Part II: Madison, Wisconsin. Entering into a romance
The young progressives
Mexico
Part III: Harlem. "Flag from a kitchenette window"
Freedom
"A young Harriet Tubman"
The passport
"I do love you"
Part IV: Greenwich Village. Camp unity
"One becomes a woman"
"I ain't sick"
"Cindy, oh Cindy"
The invisible lesbian
Part V: The great white way. "Go the way your blood beats"
"Something urgently on its way"
Dismantling the master's house
Chitterlin' heights
Epilogue.
Subject: Hansberry, Lorraine 1930-1965
African American women authors Biography
African American dramatists Biography
African American civil rights workers Biography
Dramatists Biography
American literature African American authors
American literature Women authors
American literature 21st century
Dramaturges noirs américains Biographies
Dramaturges Biographies
Écrivaines noires américaines Biographies
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs américains Biographies
Écrits de femmes américains
Littérature américaine 21e siècle
Hansberry, Lorraine 1930-1965
African American dramatists
Genre: Biography.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.

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