Tuesday 10 August 2010

What are three words to describe the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry?

To begin,
is a play by American playwrightfrom 1959.It was inspired by a poem by
Langston Hughes, an American poet who often wrote, as Hansberry did, about race and the
difficulties faced by African Americans.

The first word to describe the play
would be dramatic.It is meant to be a meditation on what it is to
be African American in a white-dominated society in the mid-twentieth century.Questions
surrounding assimilation, social justice, equality, and economic struggles emerge from the
situations theface.

A second word to describe the play is
timely.When A Raisin in the Sun debuted in
1959, the civil rights movement in America was in the forefront of the public consciousness.It
was groundbreaking because Hansberry was the first African American woman to have a play
produced on the Broadway stage.

A third word to describe the play is
enduring.Because questions surrounding race in America continue to
resonate in the first decades of the twenty-first century, Hansberry's play continues to be
relevant.

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