A Raisin in the Sun | by Lorraine Hanesberry
A Raisin in the Sun playwright was the first African American woman to write for a play that went to Broadway. Originally called "The Crystal Stair" in 1957, the play was changed to "A Raisin in the Sun", after a Langston Hughes poem. It focused on the lives of a Black family in Chicago, aspiring the "American Dream". It hit broadway 3 years later, featuring Sidney Poitier. The author went on to write " A Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" in 1964 - which focused on political and social issues an taboos. Sadly, the author encountered an untimely death at age 34; however, her legacy lives on - not just fro Black women, but all women.
Summary: First produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and hailed as a watershed in American drama. Not only a pioneering work by an African American playwright - Lorraine Hansberry's play was also radically new representation of black life, resolutely authentic, fiercely unsentimental, and unflinching in its vision of what happens to people whose dreams are constantly deffered.
Excerpt from page 60: MAMA (Working her fingers in RUTH'S shoulders to relax her) She be all right. Women gets right depressed sometimes when they get her way. (Speaking softly, expertly, rapidly) Now you just relax. That's right . . . just lean back, don't think 'bout nothing at all . . . nothing at all - RUTH: I'm all right (The glassy-eyed look melts an then she collapses into a fit of heavy sobbing. The bell rings)
Themes: Civil & women's rights, identity, justice, morality
Specs
- Page Count: 151
- Author: Lorraine Hansberry
- Year: 1994 (First Vintage Books Edition)
- Condition: Fair (USED sticker on spine, minor wear on edges and slight corner creases)
- Cover: Paperback
- Dimension: 4.13 W" x 6.88" H x 0.39" D
- Weight: 3.0 oz
- ISBN: 0-679-75533-0
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