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Radical vision : a biography of Lorraine Hansberry
- Title
- Radical vision : a biography of Lorraine Hansberry / Soyica Diggs Colbert.
- Author
- Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- x, 273 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica Colbert considers the playwright's life at the intersection of art and politics, with the theater operating as a 'rehearsal room for [her] political and intellectual work.' Colbert argues that the success of Raisin overshadows Hansberry's other contributions, including the writer's innovative journalism and lesser known plays touching on controversial issues such as slavery, interracial communities, and Black freedom movements. Colbert also details Hansberry's unique involvement in the Black freedom struggles during the Cold War and the early civil rights movement, in order to paint a full portrait of her life and impact. Drawing from Hansberry's papers, speeches, and interviews, this book presents its subject as both a playwright and a political activist. It also reveals a new perspective on the roles of Black women in mid-twentieth-century political movements." --
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Notes of a Native Daughter -- Practices of Freedom -- The Shaping Force of A Raisin in the Sun -- Origins : Black Radicalism as a Shapeshifting Pursuit -- The Movement -- From Liberals to Radicals -- With Her Mind Stayed on Freedom -- Epilogue: Alternative Endings.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-1074
- ISBN
- 9780300245707
- 030024570X
- OCLC
- 1184239038
- Author
- Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979- author.
- Title
- Radical vision : a biography of Lorraine Hansberry / Soyica Diggs Colbert.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-1074