Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Year: 1959
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Classic, Play, Award winners
Culture: African-American
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ISBNs:
9780375508332
9780679755333
0375508333
0679755330 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
"Never before, 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.
Indeed 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."
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