A raisin in the sun, and ; The sign in Sidney Brustein's window / Lorraine Hansberry ; Robert Nemiroff, editor ; with a new foreword by Jewell Handy Gresham Nemiroff ; a note by Robert Nemiroff and critical essays by Amiri Baraka and Frank Rich.
By the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of black family life in the inner c...
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New York :
Vintage Books,
[1995]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword to the Vintage Edition / Jewell Handy Gresham Nemiroff
- Notes on this new edition / Robert Nemiroff
- Acknowlegments
- A Raisin in the sun
- An appreciation: A raisin in the sun, the 25th anniversary / Frank Rich
- A critical reevaluation : A raisin in the sun's enduring passion / Amiri Baraka
- The play
- The sign in Sidney Brustein's window
- A portrait: The 101 "final" performances of Sidney Brustein / Robert Nemiroff
- Postscript
- The play
- About the contributors.