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Great American Writers: Twentieth Century - Vol. 5

Book by R. Baird Shuman; Marshall Cavendish, 2002

Subjects:

American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Gardner, John--Criticism and interpretation, Gibson, William--Criticism and interpretation, Giovanni, Nikki--Criticism and interpretation, Hansberry, Lorraine--1930-1965--Criticism and interpretation, Hemingway, Ernest--1899-1961--Criticism and interpretation, Hersey, John--1914-1993--Criticism and interpretation, Hinton, S. E--Criticism and interpretation

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...L?t? , Lorraine Hansberry was primarily a dramatist. Her view of the world was...artistically productive years, Hansberry produced a classic play...defining time and place. Hansberry, in her writings, implies...
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Modern Black American Poets and Dramatists

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1995

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, American Literature--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism

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Lorraine Hansberry 1930-1965 LORRAINE VIVIAN HANSBERRY was born on May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois, the...of a well-to-do family. Her father, Carl Augustus Hansberry, the founder of his own real estate business, was a prominent...
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Black American Women Poets and Dramatists

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1996

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Lorraine Hansberry 1930-1965 LORRAINE VIVIAN HANSBERRY was bom on May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois, the...of a well-to-do family. Her father, Carl Augustus Hansberry, the founder of his own real estate business, was a prominent...
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Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943

Book by Joseph McLaren; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Folklore, Folk Drama, American--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Folklore In Literature, Hughes, Langston--1902-1967--Dramatic Works, Protest Literature, American--History And Criticism

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...running Broadway play by an African American until Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun 1959 . 1 Mulatto was one of a handful...the 1930s." 4 Langston Hughess national reputation as a dramatist was achieved through the 1935 Martin Jones Broadway production...
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Contemporary Black American Poets and Dramatists

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1995

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism

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...readily detected as in plays by Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry, Michael in A Photograph: Lovers in Motion does embark on a journey that results in her wholeness. Shanges integrity as a dramatist who seeks to "transcend or bypass through music and dance...

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"Somewhat like War": The Aesthetics of Segregation, Black Liberation, and A Raisin in the Sun

Journal article by Michelle Gordon; African American Review, Vol. 42, 2008

Subjects:

Chicago, Illinois--History, Chicago, Illinois--Social aspects, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Works, Hansberry, Lorraine--Criticism and interpretation, Hansberry, Lorraine--Works, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works

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...really would not do. Sincerely, Lorraine Hansberry (To Be Young 117) In early summer of...before the US Supreme Court. Lorraine Hansberry later recalled her "desperate and courageous...Young 20). In its 1940 decision on Hansberry v. Lee, the Supreme Court ruled in...
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African/American: Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs and the American Civil Rights Movement

Journal article by Joy L. Abell; African American Review, Vol. 35, 2001

Subjects:

African American dramatists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Civil rights movements--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Hansberry, Lorraine--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Race awareness--Social aspects, Theater and society--Analysis, Theater--Political aspects

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...Margaret B. Wilkerson, note that Lorraine Hansberry was the first African-American playwright...freedom from European colonialists. Hansberry studied African history and read about...society were being provoked to action. Hansberry held strong beliefs about the means by...
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History, Myth, and Revolt in Lorraine Hansberry's 'Les Blancs

Journal article by Philip Uko Effiong; African American Review, Vol. 32, 1998

Subjects:

A Raisin in the Sun (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African American dramatists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African American women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Hansberry, Lorraine--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Les Blancs (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political plays--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...Blancs. by Philip Uko Effiong Lorraine Hansberry began drafting Les Blancs (The Whites...version of the drama. In Les Blancs Hansberry expands on the attention given to Africa...African colonial scene in Les Blancs, Hansberry advances the need for dialogue between...
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Go Tell It on the Stage: Blues for Mister Charlie as Dialectical Drama1

Journal article by Nicholas K. Davis; The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Vol. 17, 2005

Subjects:

American history, Baldwin, James, Drama, Dramatists, Literary criticism

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...two plays on which his reputation as a dramatist was based-Blues for Mister Charlie...petition signed by the likes of Lorraine Hansberry, Tennessee Williams, Sidney Poitier...characteristic of an ONeill, Williams, or Hansberry play are entirely missing from Blues...
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Suzan-lori Parks's Staging of the Lincoln Myth in the America Play and Topdog/underdog

Journal article by Verna Foster; The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Vol. 17, 2005

Subjects:

African Americans, American history, Drama, Dramatists, Lincoln, Abraham (1809-65), Literary criticism, Parks, Suzan-Lori

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...Parks defends realism or naturalism (as used by Lorraine Hansberry, for example) as "a specific response to a certain historical climate" (8), that is, as one form among many that a dramatist might use depending on his or her needs and purposes. At...

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Out of Obscurity: Before A Raisin in the Sun, Socially Relevant Black Dramas Worth Revisiting

Magazine article by N. Graham Nesmith; American Theatre, Vol. 21, October 2004

Subjects:

African American dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, African American dramatists--Works, African American playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, African American playwrights--Works, African American theater--Criticism and interpretation, African American theater--History, Hansberry, Lorraine--Works

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...no one was more aware than Hansberry of the myriad plays on African...playwrights who came before Hansberry. In an attempt to call attention...artists to talk about pre-Hansberry plays that they think deserve...Abram Hill was the first dramatist to write a non-musical satire...
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The Scars of the Ghetto

Magazine article by Lorraine Hansberry; Monthly Review, Vol. 41, July 1989

Subjects:

African American dramatists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, African American playwrights--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, African Americans, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation

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The Scars of the Ghetto. by Lorraine Hansberry In April 1964, the editors visited Lorraitie Hanslierry in...returned to the hopital. On January 12, 1965, Lorraine Hansberry died of cancer. She was er years old, one of Americas most...
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The Poet: Chronicler of the Age

Magazine article by Christopher Bigsby; Humanities, Vol. 22, March 2001

Subjects:

Drama, Dramatists, Miller, Arthur (Playwright), Personal profiles, Poetry

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...from it in Sticks and Bones, Lorraine Hansberry acknowledged its influence on A Raisin...have shown a fondness for the epic. The dramatist inhabits an altogether different world...break.) Increasingly, indeed, the dramatist is limited as to the number of actors...
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Bruce Norris in the Danger Zone: Why Does the 'Clybourne Park' Playwright Put Such a Premium on the Freedom to Provoke?

Magazine article by Beatrice Basso, Dan Rubin; American Theatre, Vol. 28, October 2011

Subjects:

Dramatists--Interviews, Norris, Bruce--Interviews, Playwrights--Interviews

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...unmask the lies about the American family." Unlike Lorraine Hansberry--whose seminal 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sim served as...neighborhood called Clybourne Park. That is something Lorraine Hansberry made up. If you want to have an example of the kind of neighborhood...
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Singing to Understand Life: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Magazine article by Frank Rich; American Theatre, Vol. 24, October 2007

Subjects:

Dramatists--Works, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works, Wilson, August--Works

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...sort of summer camp for new American dramatists. The competition to get into the Conference...a poet. Yet in this early work, the Hansberry-Wilson theatrical lineage is transparent...and a quarter century after Lorraine Hansberry and Lloyd Richardss Broadway breakthrough...

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Take Steps to Have Some Serious Fun; TOP 5 DANCE EVENTS

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 22, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...this year, Simon Mendes da Costa was hailed as the kind of dramatist the West End has been searching for. Alison Steadman and...St, WC2, (0870 060 6624). A RAISIN IN THE SUN Lorraine Hansberry was the first black woman ever to have a play on Broadway...
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Theatre

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 17, 2005

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...Simon Mendes da Costa was hailed as the kind of popular dramatist the West End has long been searching for. Alan Ayckbourn...Street, EC2 (020-7638 8891). A RAISIN IN THE SUN Lorraine Hansberry was the first black woman ever to have a play on Broadway...

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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of the great 19th-century Russian dramatists: Nikolai Gogol , A. N. Ostrovsky...and Maxim Gorky . Many of the Russian dramatists emphasized character and satire rather...20th cent. a few continental European dramatists, such as Dario Fo in Italy and Heiner...

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