The Art of Social Criticism:

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Home

Historical Context

Epigraph

Mama

Walter

Bennie

Ruth

Travis

Bibliography

Notes

Credits

English 217 Homepage

 

Notes

1. Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's

Window. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. i.

2. Hansberry. i.

3. Wilkerson, Margaret B. "The Sighted Eyes and Feeling Heart of Lorraine Hansberry".

Black American Literature Forum. (Spring 1983). 8.

4. Wilkerson. 9.

5. Wilkerson. 9.

6. Domina, Lynn. Understanding A Raisin in the Sun: A Student Casebook to Issues,

Sources, and Historical Documents. London: Greenwood Press, 1998. 18.

7. Brown, Lloyd W. "Lorraine Hansberry as Ironist: A Reappraisal of A Raisin in the

Sun". Journal of Black Studies. (March 1974). 241.

8. Brown. 239.

9. Bernstein, Robin. "Inventing a Fishbowl: White Supremacy and the Critical Reception

of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun". Modern Drama. (Spring 1999). 20.

10. Wilkerson. 9.

11. Wilkerson. 9.

12. Domina. 1.

13. "American Writers II: the 20th Century". C-SPAN. National Cable Satellite

Corporation. http://www.americanwriters.org/works/dream.asp. 2003

14. Domina. 1.

15. Hansberry. 23.

16. Hansberry. 135.

17. Hansberry. 73.

18. Hansberry. 46.

19. A Raisin in the Sun. Dir. Daniel Petrie. Perf. Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Louis

Gossett Jr., Ruby Dee, Diana Sands. Columbia Pictures. 1961.

20. Hansberry. 140.

21. Hansberry. 85.

22. Hansberry. 95.

23. A Raisin in the Sun.

24. A Raisin in the Sun.

25. Hansberry. 133.

26. Hansberry. 37.

27. Hansberry. 134.

28. Hansberry. 134.

29. A Raisin in the Sun.

30. Hansberry. 24.

31. Hansberry. 74.

32. Hansberry. 93.

33. Hansberry. 148.

34. Domina. 4.

35. Hansberry. 46.

 

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