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James Baldwin wrote of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play, A Raisin in the Sun, <Q>Never before in the entire history of the American theatre had so much of the truth of black people’s lives been seen on the stage.</Q> Hansberry’s depiction of a working-class African American family living on Chicago’s South Side in the 1950s dramatizes evocatively their urban backwater chronologically poised between the civil rights movement and the black activism of the years to come, as each of the characters struggles with issues of cultural assimilation and resistance. Essays in this volume approach the play as a resonant social document, as a frequently staged play and iconic film, and as an ambitious work of theatrical realism crafted by a dramatist not yet thirty. This volume, like all others in the Critical Insights series, is divided into several sections. It begins with an introductory <Q>About This Volume</Q> essay, followed by another work titled <Q>Leverage, Risk, and Fragility in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice,</Q> by Edwin Wong. This is followed by a Biography of William Shakespeare written by volume editor Robert C. Evans. Next, a collection of six critical contexts essays are intended to treat the novel from a historical vantage point; in terms of its critical reception; using a specific critical lens; and by comparing and contrasting it with another important work. Following these essays, the book contains a Critical Readings section. Each essay includes a list of Works Cited and detailed endnotes. In the final section, Resources, easy-to-follow lists are provided to help guide the reader through important dates and moments in the author’s life, beginning with a Chronology of Lorraine Hansberry’s Life. This is followed by a list of Works by Lorraine Hansberry and a Bibliography. Finally, this section closes with an About the Editor section, Contributors, and a detailed Index.

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CRITICAL INSIGHTS: A RAISIN IN THE SUN

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
On A Raisin in the Sun: The 1959 Broadway Production.
&#x201C;Rebel Against Unfairness&#x201D;: A Biographical Sketch of Lorraine Hansberry.
1: Critical Contexts.
2: Historical Background: Lived Experience.
3: A Raisin in the Sun: Surveying Early Reviews of the 1959 Play.
4: A Raisin in the Sun: A Survey of Early Reviews of the 1961 Film.
5: &#x201C;Completely disinherited&#x201D;: Revisions and Extensions of Raisin in Hansberry&#x2019;s Unfilmed Shooting Script.
6: &#x201C;Which of the Closets?&#x201D;: The Deflected Gay Subtext of A Raisin in the Sun.
7: Hansberry, Baldwin, and the Origins of Black Broadway.
8: Critical Readings.
9: The Paradoxical Victory of the Younger Family in A Raisin in the Sun.
10: The Power of Mentorship: The Impact of Alice Childress on Hansberry&#x2019;s A Raisin in the Sun.
11: &#x201C;In These Trying Times, All That We Have to Cling to Is Each Other&#x201D;: Family Dynamics in The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun.
12: The &#x201C;W&#x201D; Word: The Inscription and Erasure of Whiteness in A Raisin in the Sun.
13: &#x201C;There&#x2019;s no such thing as a white folks neighborhood:&#x201D; Hansberry&#x2019;s Imprint on the Chicago Housing Market.
14: Ideas in Motion: Beneatha&#x2019;s Pan-African Dream and Hansberry&#x2019;s Radical Activism.
15: A Raisin in the Sun&#x2019;s Theatrical Legacy.
16: A Raisin in the Sun: A Survey of Reviews of the 1989 and 2008 Films.
Resources.
Chronology of Lorraine Hansberry&#x2019;s Life.
Works by Lorraine Hansberry.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.

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