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Radical vision : a biography of Lorraine Hansberry /

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In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica 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 intellectu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2021].
Subjects:
Hansberry, Lorraine, > 1930-1965.
African American dramatists > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Notes of a Native Daughter
  • Practices of Freedom
  • The Shaping Force of A Raisin in the Sun
  • Origins : Black Radicalism as a Shapeshifting Pursuit
  • The Movement
  • From Liberals to Radicals
  • With Her Mind Stayed on Freedom
  • Epilogue: Alternative Endings.