An edition of Looking for Lorraine (2018)

Looking for Lorraine

the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry

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An edition of Looking for Lorraine (2018)

Looking for Lorraine

the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry

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Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now. In 2018, Hansberry will get the recognition she deserves with the PBS American Masters documentary “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” and Imani Perry’s multi-dimensional, illuminating biography, Looking for Lorraine.

After the success of A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry used her prominence in myriad ways: challenging President Kennedy and his brother to take bolder stances on Civil Rights, supporting African anti-colonial leaders, and confronting the romantic racism of the Beat poets and Village hipsters. Though she married a man, she identified as lesbian and, risking censure and the prospect of being outed, joined one of the nation’s first lesbian organizations. Hansberry associated with many activists, writers, and musicians, including Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, among others. Looking for Lorraine is a powerful insight into Hansberry’s extraordinary life—a life that was tragically cut far too short.

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Beacon Press
Language
English
Pages
237

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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
2019, Beacon Press
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Sep 18, 2018, Dreamscape Media
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Sep 18, 2018, Dreamscape Media
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Migration song
From heartland to the water's edge
The girl who can do everything
Bobby
Sappho's poetry
Raisin
The trinity
Of the faith of our fathers
American radical
The view from chitterling heights
Homegoing
Conclusion: retracing, may 2017.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812/.54, B
Library of Congress
PS3515.A515 Z84 2018, PS3515.A515Z84 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
237 pages
Number of pages
237

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26966519M
ISBN 10
0807064491
ISBN 13
9780807064498
LCCN
2017055552
OCLC/WorldCat
1015270574

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