A Raisin in the Sun Contributor(s): Hansberry, Lorraine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679755330 ISBN-13: 9780679755333 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $8.06 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: November 2004 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - African American - Drama | Women Authors |
Dewey: 812.54 |
LCCN: 94020636 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.1" W x 6.7" (0.20 lbs) 160 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Great Lakes - Cultural Region - Midwest - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Illinois - Catalog Heading - Language Arts - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 56457 Reading Level: 5.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Never before, 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. 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. 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. This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. |