New Releases by Lorraine Hansberry

Reclam Lektüreschlüssel XL – hier findest du alle Informationen, um dich zielsicher und schnell vorzubereiten: auf Klausur, Referat, Abitur oder Matura! Differenziert, umfassend, übersichtlich! Lektüreschlüssel zu englischen Werken sind auf Deutsch verfasst, enthalten aber das wichtigste Vokabular für die Analyse auf Englisch Präzise Inhaltsangaben zum Einstieg in den Text Klare Analysen von Figuren, Aufbau, Sprache und Stil Zuverlässige Interpretationen mit prägnanten Textbelegen Informationen zu Autor:innen und historischem Kontext Hilfreiche Infografiken, Abbildungen und Tabellen Aktuelle Literatur- und Medientipps Prüfungsaufgaben mit Lösungshinweisen auf Englisch Zentrale Begriffe undDefinition als Lernglossar auf Englisch »A Raisin in the Sun« – der Titel nimmt Bezug auf ein Gedicht von Langston Hughes - war 1959 das erste Stück einer schwarzen Dramatikerin, das am Broadway aufgeführt wurde. Es wurde ein Riesenerfolg. Erzählt wird die Geschichte einer Familie im Schwarzen-Viertel von Chicago, die um die Verwirklichung ihrer Träume, um ihr Recht und ihre Würde kämpft. Das Stück ist ein Meilenstein in der Geschichte des amerikanischen »Schwarzen Dramas« und hierzulande beliebte Schullektüre. Es wurde 1961 verfilmt mit Sidney Poitier (deutscher Titel »Ein Fleck in der Sonne«), 1973 erschien eine Musical-Version, 1989 und 2008 gab es Fernsehverfilmungen.

For use in teaching literature to high school students.

"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. 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." This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry''s landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.

This is the probing hilarious and provocative story of Sidney a disenchanted Greenwich Village intellectual his wife Iris an aspiring actress and their colorful circle of friends and relations. Set against the shenanigans of a stormy political campaign the play follows its characters in their unorthodox quests for meaningful lives in an age of corruption alienation and cynicism. With compassion humor and poignancy the author examines questions concerning the fragility of love morality and ethics interracial relationships drugs rebellion conformity and especially withdrawal from or commitment to the world.

Three plays describe a Black man torn between his African heritage and Western culture, the effects of slavery on both Blacks and whites, and the world after a nuclear war

Three plays about the struggles of black people convey the author''s feelings of anger and frustration.

"Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in revolution. The setting is a white Christian mission in a colony about to explode. The time is that hour of reckoning when no one the guilty nor the innocent can evade the consequences of white colonialism and imperatives of black liberation. Tshembe Matoseh, the English educated son of a chief, has come home to bury his father. He finds his teenage brother a near alcoholic and his older brother a priest and traitor to his people. Forswearing politics and wanting only to return to his wife and child in England, Tshembe is drawn into the conflict symbolized by a woman dancer, the powerful Spirit of Africa who pursues him."--Page 4 of cover.

Hundreds of black & white photographs chronicling the civil rights movement. Captions and accompanying text by Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright. Photographers include Danny Lyon, Don Charles, Norris McNamara, Frank Dandridge and others.

Letter in reply to Ruth Gibson''s question whether she knows of other successful women playwrights.