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Edition: Abridged, Audio CD, Caedmon

Description Author Bios Lorraine Hansberry wrote of Black consciousness before it was fashionable, but she bequeathed to all of us a legacy astounding in its richness and relevancy. Few writers, black or white, are more relevant to present-day America than Lorraine Hansberry. Here, for the first time, Caedmon has gathered many of her plays, interviews, and speeches into one unforgettable collection. A Raisin in the Sun: an emotionally lacerating landmark of modem American theatre. A full-cast production...

ISBN-10: 0061768952 ISBN-13: 9780061768958. Edition: Abridged.

Details: General wear with some light bumps at corners. Moderate jacket wear with some tears and creases at edges. ISBN: 0-8234-1300-4

Publisher: Vintage Books Publisher Year: 1973 Edition: First Edition Book Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publish Place: New York, New York Notes: First Edition. 370 pages. Fading to covers. Very light edge wear. Yellowing throughout.

In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry became the first black woman playwright to be produced on Broadway. Her play, A Raisin in the Sun -- based loosely on the experiences of her own family in Chicago -- was an overnight sensation with both black and white audiences. In the wake of its phenomenal success, Hansberry became a spokesperson for black Americans during the 1960s civil rights movement. Then in 1964, just before the Broadway opening of her second play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Hansberry...

Description Raised on Chicago's South Side, Lorraine Hansberry, writer & civil rights activist, used this setting for her prize-winning play Raisin in the Sun.The story of the gifted playwright who was also a civil rights activist & a fighter for justice.-- 100+ page biographies of inspirational African Americans. BR-- Explores both the personal and professional lives of these exemplary men and women. show more show less

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."--The New York Times.

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."

Lorraine Hansberry wrote of Black consciousness before it was fashionable, but she bequeathed to all of us a legacy astounding in its richness and relevancy. Few writers, black or white, are more relevant to present-day America than Lorraine Hansberry.

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In 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.

An insurance check can allow the Youngers to escape their frustrating life in a crowded Chicago apartment, but escape means different things to each family member.

Product Description In this powerful, prize-winning play, a Black family desperately struggles to maintain its dignity, self-respect & humanity. Dramatically brought to life by the same actors who played in the landmark Broadway production in 1959. This recording also features Lloyd Richards repeating his role as director.

By the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of black family life in the inner city. Barely five years later, with The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Hansberry gave us an unforgettable portrait of a man struggling with his individual fate in an age of racial and social injustice...

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever".--The New York Times.

A Black family is united in love and pride as they struggle to overcome poor living conditions