Category - Fiction / Classics
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
Listed - 4 months ago
Views - 7
Ships From - Washington
Est. Publication Date - Oct 2005
Seller Description
*The play that changed American theater forever.... A seething interplay of past and present, of wisdom and passion." —The New York Times When it was 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 was it a pio. neering work by an African-American playwright-Lorraine Hansberry's play was also a radically new representation of black life, one that was resolutely authentic, fiercely unsenti-mental, and unflinching in its vision of what happens to people whose dreams are constantly deferred. In her portrait of an embattled Chicago family, Hansberry anticipated issues that range from generational clashes to the civil rights and women's movements. She also posed the essential questions-about identity, justice, and moral responsibility-at the heart of these great struggles. The result is a work that captivated audiences from every walk of life and has become a classic of American letters. "A play rooted in its own time that speaks through the years to our own." —Chicago Tribune
Additional Information
A Raisin in the Sun
ISBN: 0808508717
Publisher Description
An African-American family is united in love and pride as they struggle to overcome poverty and harsh living conditions, in the award-winning 1959 play about an embattled Chicago family
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