Research Guides: Raisin in the Sun, A: Books

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The American Dream by Harold Bloom; Blake Hobby (Series edited by)
Call Number: PS169.A49 A44 2009
ISBN: 9780791098011
Publication Date: 2009-04-30
The American Dream discusses the role of this theme in great works of literature such as "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "Death of a Salesman," "The Great Gatsby," "Their Eyes Were Watching God," and many others. With 20 essays and reprinted articles, this new title from the "Bloom's Literary Themes" series gives context and guidance to students studying the literary theme of the 'American dream.
Radical Vision by Soyica Diggs Colbert
Call Number: PS3515.A515 Z653 2021
ISBN: 9780300245707
Publication Date: 2021-04-20
In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica Diggs Colbert considers the playwright's life at the intersection of art and politics, with the theater operating as a "rehearsal room for [her] political and intellectual work." Colbert argues that the success of Raisin overshadows Hansberry's other contributions, including the writer's innovative journalism and lesser known plays touching on controversial issues such as slavery, interracial communities, and black freedom movements.
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Call Number: PS3515 .A515 R3 1988
ISBN: 0451161378
Publication Date: 1961-02-01
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry; Robert Nemiroff (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3515 .A515 R3 1994
ISBN: 9780679601722
Publication Date: 1995-08-22
"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.
Understanding a Raisin in the Sun by Lynn Domina
Call Number: PS3515 .A515 R335 1998
ISBN: 0313303495
Publication Date: 1998-09-24
This interdisciplinary collection of commentary and forty-five primary documents will enrich the reader's understanding of the historical and social context of the play. A wide variety of primary materials sheds light on integration and segregation in the 1950s and 1960s; relationships between African Americans and Africans; relationships between men and women within African American culture; Chicago as a literary setting for the play; and contemporary race relations in the 1990s.

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