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A Raisin in the Sun
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Author:
Hansberry, Lorraine
Published:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
ISBN:
9780307807441
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Points: 5
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"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."

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Street Date:
11/02/2011
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Lorraine Hansberry. (2011). A Raisin in the Sun. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Lorraine Hansberry. 2011. A Raisin in the Sun. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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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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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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