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“Never before, in 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.
This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry’s landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.
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.”
Publisher : Vintage; Reprint,Reissue edition (November 29, 2004)
Language : English
Mass Market Paperback : 151 pages
ISBN-10 : 0679755330
ISBN-13 : 978-0679755333
Lexile measure : NP
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 4.2 x 0.43 x 6.86 inches
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