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Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry
- Title
- Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry / Imani Perry.
- Author
- Perry, Imani, 1972-
- Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- 237 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century"--
- Best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry had an unflinching commitment to social justice which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. Hansberry associated with many activists, writers, and musicians; though she married a man, she identified as a lesbian. Perry provides insights into Hansberry's life and writings, and shows how her political activism is reflected in her works. -- adapted from jacket
- Alternative Title
- Radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry
- Subjects
- Dramatists, American
- African American women civil rights workers
- African American dramatists
- Black author
- Biography
- African American women civil rights workers > Biography
- African American lesbians > Biography
- African American dramatists > Biography
- Dramatists, American > 20th century > Biography
- Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965 > Political and social views
- 1900-1999
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Lorraine's time -- Migration song -- From heartland to the water's edge -- The girl who can do everything -- Bobby -- Sappho's poetry -- Raisin -- The trinity -- Of the faith of our fathers -- American radical -- The view from Chitterling Heights -- Homegoing -- Conclusion : retracing, May 2017.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-945
- ISBN
- 9780807064498
- 0807064491
- LCCN
- 2017055552
- 99978091231
- 40028511055
- OCLC
- 1015270574
- Author
- Perry, Imani, 1972- author.
- Title
- Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry / Imani Perry.
- Publisher
- Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9997809123140028511055
- Report No.
- (Coutts)039676571
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-945