Contents
About This Volume
On A Raisin in the Sun: The 1959 Broadway Production
"Rebel Against Unfairness": A Biographical Sketch of Lorraine Hansberry
Critical Contexts
Historical Background: Lived Experience
A Raisin in the Sun: Surveying Early Reviews of the 1959 Play
A Raisin in the Sun: A Survey of Early Reviews of the 1961 Film
"Completely disinherited": Revisions and Extensions of Raisin in Hansberry's Unfilmed Shooting Script,
"Which of the Closets?": The Deflected Gay Subtext of A Raisin in the Sun
Hansberry, Baldwin, and the Origins of Black Broadway
Critical Readings
The Paradoxical Victory of the Younger Family in A Raisin in the Sun
The Power of Mentorship: The Impact of Alice Childress on Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
"In These Trying Times, All That We Have to Cling to Is Each Other": Family Dynamics in The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun
The "W" Word: The Inscription and Erasure of Whiteness in A Raisin in the Sun
"There's no such thing as a white folks neighborhood:" Hansberry's Imprint on the Chicago Housing Market
Ideas in Motion: Beneatha's Pan-African Dream and Hansberry's Radical Activism
A Raisin in the Sun's Theatrical Legacy
A Raisin in the Sun: A Survey of Reviews of the 1989 and 2008 Films
Resources
Chronology of Lorraine Hansberry's Life
Works by Lorraine Hansberry
Bibliography
About the Editor
Contributors
Index.