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A Reader's Guide to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
Presents a critique and analysis of "A Raisin in the Sun," discussing the plot, themes, dramatic devices, and major characters in the play, and includes a brief overview of Hansberry's other works.
Hansberry's Drama
This insightful study opens with an overview of Hansberry's cultural, social, political, and philosophical views and their relations to her artistic goals.
Lorraine Hansberry
Examines the life and works of twentieth-century African-American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote "A Raisin in the Sun"; includes a chronology and a selected bibliography.
Communists in Closets
Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as "degenerates." It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fas...
Liner Notes for the Revolution
Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Winner of the American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation Winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award Winner of the MAAH Stone Book Award A Pitchfork Best Music Book of the Year A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year “Brooks traces all kinds of lines, finding unexpected points of connection...inviting voices to talk to one another, seeing what different perspectives can offer, opening up new ways of looking and listening by tracing lineages and calling for more space.” —New York Times An award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to...
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, ...
Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1981-1990
A selective list of publications for the period, offering some 25,200 entries (no annotations) arranged by nationality and linguistic groups. Most entries concern literary currents in drama since the last third of the 19th century, playwrights who lived at least part of their lives in the 20th century, noted directors, and performance theory. For students and scholars of modern dramatic literature. While annual supplements of recent publications appear in the journal Modern Drama, new compilers took a publication date of 1991 as their starting point for listings, leaving some 2,000 items collected after 1992 appearing only in this volume. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Black American Women in Literature
Includes the poetry, short fiction, novels, essays, and plays by, and criticism on, women whose work has been published in periodicals and anthologies between 1976 and the end of 1987. Over 80 periodical titles and 200 books have been searched; a large number of the journals included were not originally indexed. Arrangement is alphabetical by author, Ada to Nzadi Zimele-Keita. An appendix provides reference to authors by genre and serves as a guide to black women who have been writing creatively. Another appendix describes works about black women including literary criticism, book reviews, interviews, biographies, and bibliographies.
