Untold. Lorraine Hansberry

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Student Maytal Etehad on Playwright Lorraine Hansberry

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A raisin in the sun by Rosenthal, Laurence, 1926-

Writers of the Black Chicago renaissance

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Writers of the Black Chicago renaissance

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Race and Sex across the French Atlantic : the Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical and Theater Discourse. by Ekotto, Frieda

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1: The Blacks and the Whites: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Race between Lorraine Hansberry and Jean Genet; 2: Categorical Reason and Empire: Genet's Use of the N Word; 3: It's about the N Word; 4: Eroshima: The Meeting of the Black Man and the White Woman; Conclusion: The Angel of History; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Black internationalist feminism : women writers of the Black left, 1945-1995 by Higashida, Cheryl

Table of Contents: “…The negro question, the woman question, and the vital link: histories and institutions -- Lorraine Hansberry's existentialist routes to black internationalist feminism -- Rosalind on the black star line: Alice Childress, black minstrelsy, and Garveyite drag -- Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the hemispheric woman -- Audre Lorde revisited: nationalism and second-wave black feminism -- Reading Maya Angelou, reading black internationalist feminism today.…”
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Black internationalist feminism : women writers of the Black left, 1945-1995 by Higashida, Cheryl

Table of Contents: “…The negro question, the woman question, and the vital link: histories and institutions -- Lorraine Hansberry's existentialist routes to black internationalist feminism -- Rosalind on the black star line: Alice Childress, black minstrelsy, and Garveyite drag -- Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the hemispheric woman -- Audre Lorde revisited: nationalism and second-wave black feminism -- Reading Maya Angelou, reading black internationalist feminism today.…”
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Feminism, the left, and postwar literary culture by McDonald, Kathlene

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Salt of the earth and the cold war erasure of a left feminist culture -- Domestic ideology as containment ideology: antifascism and the woman question in the party presses -- Fighting fascism at home and abroad: the cold war exile of Martha Dodd -- "In her full courage and dignity": Alice Childress and the struggle against black women's triple oppression -- Antiracism, anticolonialism, and the contradictory left feminism of Lorraine Hansberry -- "Ask him if he's tried it at home": making the personal political -- Epilogue: A left feminist literary history.…”
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The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen : From Sokol'niki Park to Chicago's South Side. by Baldwin, Kate A.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Cold War Hot Kitchen; 1 | Envy and Other Warm Guns: Ray and Charles Eames at the American National Exhibition in Moscow; 2 | Reframing the Cold War Kitchen: Sylvia Plath, Byt, and the Radical Imaginary of The Bell Jar; 3 | Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya, and the Conditions of Cold War Womanhood; 4 | Lorraine Hansberry and the Social Life of Emotions; 5 | Selling the Homeland: Silk Stockings, Stilyagi, and Style; Epilogue: A Kitchen in History; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.…”
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Representing Africa in the motherland and the diaspora : essays on theatre, dance, music and cinema

Table of Contents: “…Wetmore, Jr. -- Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun: the African-diasporas identity search and a racism/desegregation dialectics / Joseph Agofure Idogho -- Performing peace and democracy in Nigeria: Bakare's outing in Langbodo / 'Tosin Kooshima Tume -- Ubiaja Ikhio dance drama in contemporary Nigerian and African-American drama / Juliana Okoh -- Children's folk music and cultural identity: the motherland and the diaspora experience / Eunice Ukamaka Ibekwe -- Africa to America: black choreography in search of global interaction in contemporary African dance genre / Victor Thompson -- In search of Yorùbá Bàtá: system of cultural production in diaspora / Oluwadamilare Adeyeri -- From Ikpirikpe-ogu to Nkwa-Ike: adapting Igbo traditional dance for a contemporary audience / Cristian Nwaru -- Not lost but rooted: exploring Nigerian dances and praxis in Brazil and Cuba / Casmir E. …”
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Neo-segregation narratives : Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature by Norman, Brian, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Jim Crow then: the emergence of neo-segregation narratives -- Jim Crow Jr.: Lorraine Hansberry's late segregation revisions and Toni Morrison's early post-civil rights ambivalence -- Jim Crow returns, Jim Crow remains: gender and segregation in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident and Alice Walker's The color purple -- Jim too: black blackface minstrelsy in Wesley Brown's Darktown strutters and Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- Jim Crow in Idaho: clarifying blackness in multiethnic fiction -- Jim Crow Faulkner: Suzan-Lori Parks digs up the past, again -- Epilogue. …”
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Neo-segregation narratives : Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature by Norman, Brian, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Jim Crow then: the emergence of neo-segregation narratives -- Jim Crow Jr.: Lorraine Hansberry's late segregation revisions and Toni Morrison's early post-civil rights ambivalence -- Jim Crow returns, Jim Crow remains: gender and segregation in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident and Alice Walker's The color purple -- Jim too: black blackface minstrelsy in Wesley Brown's Darktown strutters and Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- Jim Crow in Idaho: clarifying blackness in multiethnic fiction -- Jim Crow Faulkner: Suzan-Lori Parks digs up the past, again -- Epilogue. …”
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How racism takes place by Lipsitz, George

Table of Contents: “…Louis -- The crime the wire couldn't name : social decay and cynical detachment in Baltimore -- Bridge -- Weapons of the weak and weapons of the strong -- Visible archives -- Horace Tapscott and the world stage in Los Angeles -- "John Biggers and project row houses in Houston" -- Invisible archives -- "Betye Saar's Los Angeles and Paule Marshall's Brooklyn" -- "Something left to love : Lorraine Hansberry's Chicago" -- Race and place today -- New Orleans today : we know this place -- A place where everybody is somebody.…”
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To be young, gifted and black

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The African American theatrical body : reception, performance, and the stage by Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Repetition/reproduction: the DNA of black expressive culture: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun -- 2. Recuperating black diasporic history: W.E.B. …”
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Women and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965

Table of Contents: “…Sampson -- Johnnie Carr -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Dorothy Tilly -- Della D. Sullins -- Barbara Posey -- Priscilla Stephens -- Casey Hayden -- Modjeska M. …”
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Aristotle and Black Drama : A Theater of Civil Disobedience by Rankine, Patrice D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Civil disobedience as resistance to tradition and performance -- Classical origins of character and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a negro, Electra, and Orestes -- The Oedipus story and the perfect play, or The gospel according to Rita Dove : The darker face of the earth and Sonata Mulattica : a life in five movements and a short play -- Racial intent and dramatic form : Eugene O'Neill's All God's chillun got wings and The Emperor Jones -- Aristotle's "Spectacle" and August Wilson's "Spectacle character" : Joe Turner's Come and gone -- Freedom songs and metaphors of healing : Eugene O'Neill's Mourning becomes Electra, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the sun, and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Topdog/Underdog -- Civil disobedience, truth and reconciliation, and the cosmopolitan citizen : Charles Smith's The gospel according to James, Thomas Bradshaw's Mary, David Mamet's Race, and Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park.…”
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Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America by Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-

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From bourgeois to boojie : Black middle-class performances

Table of Contents: “…black women's visual performances in the art of Annie Lee / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- Melodrama of the movement : Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- Performing sexuality. …”
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Modern American drama on screen

Table of Contents: “…Bak -- The big knife: Hollywood's fable about moral values and success / by Christopher Ames -- Adapting Lorraine Hansberry's sociological imagination: race, housing, and health in A raisin in the sun / by Martin Halliwell -- The children's hour / by Neil Sinyard -- Screening Long day's journey into night / by Mary F. …”
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Representing the past : essays in performance historiography

Table of Contents: “…COLE -- The high stakes of identity : Lorraine Hansberry's Follow the drinking gourd and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus / HARRY J. …”
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100 greatest American plays

Table of Contents: “…Richard Nash ; A raisin in the sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry ; Rip Van Winkle (1866) by Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson ; The show-off (1924) by George Kelly ; Six degrees of separation (1990) by John Guare ; The skin of our teeth (1942) by Thornton Wilder ; A soldier's play (1981) by Charles Fuller ; Steel magnolias (1987) by Robert Harling ; Streamers (1976) by David Rabe ; Street scene (1929) by Elmer Rice ; A streetcar named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams ; Take me out (2003) by Richard Greenberg ; Talley's folly (1979) by Lanfrod Wilson ; Ten nights in a barroom (1858) by William W. …”
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Chicago whispers : a history of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall by De la Croix, St. Sukie

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The Norton introduction to literature

Table of Contents: “…Cultural and historical contexts : Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun' -- Chapter 28. …”

The plum flower dance : poems 1985 to 2005 by Weaver, Afaa M. (Afaa Michael), 1951-

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The new Black history : revisiting the second Reconstruction

Table of Contents: “…4 Spokesman of the Oppressed? Lorraine Hansberry at Work: The Challenge of Radical Politics in the Postwar Era5 Black Crusaders: The Transnational Circuit of Robert and Mabel Williams; 6 Peace Was the Glue: Europe and African American Freedom; 7 The Formation of Asian American Nationalism in the Age of Black Power, 1966-75; 8 The Congress of African People: Baraka, Brother Mao, and the Year of '74; III Disrupting Internal Boundaries; 9 Waiting till the Midnight Hour: Reconceptualizing the Heroic Period of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-65.…”
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The plum flower dance : poems 1985 to 2005 by Weaver, Afaa M. (Afaa Michael), 1951-

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Black on black : twentieth-century African American writing about Africa by Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The Movement Away from Ethiopianism in African American Writing about Africa; Attempting to Escape Prepossessions in Black Power; Lorraine Hansberry's Answer to Heart of Darkness in Les Blancs; The End of Ethiopianism in The Color Purple.…”
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African American dramatists : an A-to-Z guide

Table of Contents: “…Franklin (1937- ) -- Charles Gordone (1925-1995) -- Shirley Graham (1896-1977) -- Micki Grant (1941- ) -- Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958) -- William Harrison Gunn (1934-1989) -- Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) -- Leslie Pinckney Hill (1880-1960) -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880?…”
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The American theatre reader : essays and conversations from American theatre magazine

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