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Hansberry's Drama: COMMITMENT AMID COMPLEXITY [Hardcover]

Steven R. Carter (Author)

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"Carter's thoughtful and lucid examination makes us recognize the importance not only of 'A Raisin in the Sun,' but also of Lorraine Hansberry as a playwright with a significant body of work, a seemingly limitless vision and the artistry to match." -- New York Times Book Review

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Hardcover: 216 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (November 1, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252017498
ISBN-13: 978-0252017490
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,899,956 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Totally immersed in the political and social movements of her day, Lorraine Hansberry nevertheless, like Berthold Brecht and Sean O'Casey, viewed them with such largeness of vision and in such human terms that she created works of high artistry and enduring value. Read the first page

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New York, Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff, Les Blancs, New American Library, Sidney Brustein's Window, The Sign, Big Walter, United States, Studs Terkel, American Playhouse, Arthur Miller, The Collected Last Plays, Make New Sounds, Civil War, George Murchison, Critical Background, Wally O'Hara, Walter Lee, Charlie Morris, Marilyn Monroe, Tshembe Matoseh, Beneatha Younger, John Brown, South Side

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This book cites 53 books:

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry on 46 pages
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: An Informal Autobiography (Signet) by Robert Nemiroff on 26 pages
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett on 10 pages
Hansberry Collected Last (Plume) by Lorraine Hansberry on 10 pages
A Raisin in the Sun and (Plume) by Lorraine Hansberry on 7 pages

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11 books cite this book:

African American Women Playwrights: A Research Guide (Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture) by Christy Gavin on page 68, page 122, and page 123
Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature by Trudier Harris in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature by Trudier Harris in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
A History of African American Theatre (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) by Errol G. Hill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage (Studies in Modern Drama) by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett on page 110

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