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A Raisin in the Sun, first performed as the conservative 1950s slid into the radical sixties, explores both of these vital issues. A Raisin in the Sun was a revolutionary work for its time. Hansberry creates in the Younger family one of the first honest depictions of a Black family on an American stage, in an age when predominantly Black audiences simply did not exist.
This play tells the story of a lower-class black family's struggle to gain middle-class acceptance. When the play opens, Mama, the sixty-year-old mother of the family, is waiting for a $10,000 insurance check from the death of her husband, and the drama will focus primarily on how the $10,000 should be spent. The son, Walter Lee Younger, is so ...
Summary: Act 1: Scene 1. It is morning at the Youngers’ apartment. Their small dwelling on the South Side of Chicago has two bedrooms—one for Mama and Beneatha, and one for Ruth and Walter Lee. Travis sleeps on the couch in the living room. The only window is in their small kitchen, and they share a bathroom in the hall with their neighbors.
"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. 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 ...
A Raisin in the Sun ist ein Theaterstück der US-amerikanischen Dramatikerin Lorraine Hansberry.Es erzählt von einer afroamerikanischen Arbeiterfamilie, die im Ghetto Chicagos lebt und unter Armut und Rassismus zu leiden hat. Der Titel des Stücks ist dem dritten Vers des Gedichtes Harlem von Langston Hughes entlehnt.. Bei seiner Uraufführung im Jahre 1959 war A Raisin in the Sun das erste ...
Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem.
