Lorraine Hansberry Reihenfolge der Bücher

A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class black family in Chicago

“Anyone who has ever wondered what it really means to be Black will find the answer in this book.”—MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE To Be Young, Gifted and Black is a special kind of autobiography, in a very special voice. Both the story and the voice belong to a young woman from Chicago who moved to New York, won fame with her first play, A Raisin in the Sun—and went on to new heights of artistry before her tragically early death. In turns angry, loving, bitter, laughing, and defiantly proud, the story, voice, and message are all Lorraine Hansberry’s own, coming together in one of the major works of the Black experience in mid-twentieth-century America. “A milestone.”—TIME “Wonderfully moving and entertaining.”—Clive Barnes, THE NEW YORK TIMES “I advise anybody who is interested in the human condition, black or white, to read it.”—NEWSDAY

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 city. Barely five years later, with The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Hansberry gave us an unforgettable portrait of a man struggling with his individual fate in an age of racial and social injustice. These two plays remain milestones in the American theater, remarkable not only for their historical value but for their continued ability to engage the imagination and the heart

Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson and a commentary by Spike Lee, this completely restored screenplay is the accurate and authoritative edition of Lorraine Hansberry's script and a testament to her unparalled accomplishment as a Black artist.The 1961 film version of A Raisin in the Sun , with a screenplay by the author, Lorraine Hansberry, won an award at the Cannes Film Festival even though one-third of the actual screenplay Hansberry had written had been cut out. The film did essentially bring Hansberry's extraordinary play to the screen, but it failed to fulfill her cinematic vision.Now, with this landmark edition of Lorraine Hansberry's original script for the movie of A Raisin in the Sun that audiences never viewed, readers have at hand an epic, eloquent work capturing not only the life and dreams of a Black family, but the Chicago—and the society—that surround and shape them.Important changes in dialogue and exterior shots, a stunning shift of focus to her male protagonist, and a dramatic rewriting of the final scene show us an artist who understood and used the cinematic medium to transform a stage play into a different art form—a profound and powerful film.

Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays -- Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers? -- representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson.

Drama černošské autorky je protestem proti rasové a mravní diskriminaci amerických černochů. Ukazuje, jak sociální situace černých občanů USA je dále komplikována rasovým útlakem a jak se postižení ocitají na pokraji ztráty lidské důstojnosti.

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. »A Raisin in the Sun« – der Titel nimmt Bezug auf ein Gedicht von Langston Hughes – war 1959 das erste Stück einer schwarzen Dramatikerin, das am Broadway aufgeführt wurde. Es wurde ein Riesenerfolg. Erzählt wird die Geschichte einer Familie im Schwarzen-Viertel von Chicago, die um die Verwirklichung ihrer Träume, um ihr Recht und ihre Würde kämpft. Das Stück ist ein Meilenstein in der Geschichte des amerikanischen »Schwarzen Dramas« und hierzulande beliebte Schullektüre. Es wurde 1961 verfilmt mit Sidney Poitier (deutscher Titel »Ein Fleck in der Sonne«), 1973 erschien eine Musical-Version, 1989 und 2008 gab es Fernsehverfilmungen. Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2–C1 (GER) Sprachen: Englisch, Deutsch