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University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry (Literary Conversations Series)

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Product Description Spanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her early death from cancer in January 1965, Lorraine Hansberry's short stint in the public eye changed the landscape of American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry (1930-1965) became both the first African American woman to have a play produced on Broadway and the first to win the prestigious New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Resonating deeply with the aims of the civil rights movement, Raisin also ushered in a new era of Black representation on the stage and screen, displacing the cartoonish stereotypes that were the remnants of blackface minstrelsy in favor of complex three-dimensional portrayals of Black characters and Black life. Hansberry's public discourse in the aftermath of Raisin's success also disrupted mainstream critical tendencies to diminish the work of Black artists, helping pave the way for future work by Black playwrights. Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry is the first volume to collect all of her substantive interviews in one place, including many radio and television interviews that have never before appeared in print. The twenty-one pieces collected here--ranging from just before the Broadway premiere of A Raisin in the Sun to less than six months before Hansberry's death--offer an incredible window into Hansberry's aesthetic and political thought. In these conversations, Hansberry explores many of the questions most often put to Black writers of the mid-twentieth century--including everything from her thinking about the relationship between art and protest, universality and particularity, and realism and naturalism, to her sense of the relationship between Black intellectuals and the Black masses, integration and Black Nationalism, and African American and Pan-African liberation. Taken together, these interviews reveal the insight, intensity, and eloquence that made Hansberry such a transformative figure in American letters. Review Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry allows the reader to hear the artist in dialogue without the filter of the biographer or documentarian. This is a collage of reflection, delight, and self-defense, from the dawn of Hansberry's career as a playwright to the posthumous recognition of her immense impact.-- "New York Review of Books"These conversations offer both insight into the craft of writing and, notably, a bridge to today's racial politics in Hansberry's takes on the relationship between art and protest. Aspiring writers will no doubt find food for thought.-- "Publishers Weekly" About the Author Mollie Godfrey is associate professor of English at James Madison University. She is coeditor of Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow.

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Brand: University Press of Mississippi
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1496829638
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Novelists, Poets & Playwrights
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 December 2020
Listed Since: 21 April 2020

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