Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry
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Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2018].
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Book
ISBN
9780807064498, 0807064491, 9780807039830, 0807039837
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Briarcliff Manor Public Library - Biography | B HANSBERRY | Available |
Bronxville Public Library - Biography | B HANSBERRY | Available |
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Published
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2018].
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780807064498, 0807064491, 9780807039830, 0807039837
UPC
99978091231, 40028511055, 99978227886
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index.
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"A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century." --,Amazon.com.
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"Best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry had an unflinching commitment to social justice which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. Hansberry associated with many activists, writers, and musicians; though she married a man, she identified as a lesbian. Perry provides insights into Hansberry's life and writings, and shows how her political activism is reflected in her works." --Adapted from jacket.
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"Lorraine Hansberry, who died in 1965 at age thirty-four, was, by all accounts, a force of nature. She was also one of the most radical, courageous, and prescient artist-intellectuals of the twentieth century--and one of the least understood. Defined largely by her groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry has been hidden in plain sight for decades. Little of her manifold contributions, her associations, her other writing, or her transgressive nature is known. A prolific and probing artist, she also committed herself passionately to political activism. Hansberry's unflinching dedication to social justice brought her under FBI surveillance in the midst of McCarthyism, when she was barely in her twenties. Looking for Lorraine is the first biography of Hansberry in decades, and it shows her multi-dimensional and miraculous complexity. Hansberry was a child of Chicago's striving Black middle class but cast her lot with the working classes; she married a man--Jewish communist songwriter Robert Nemiroff--but described herself as a lesbian. Risking public censure and the prospect of being outed, she joined one of the nation's First lesbian organizations. Hansberry was a Black nationalist and an internationalist. She was befriended and beloved by many of the most important Black figures of her era, including James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Paul Robeson. After the success of A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry used her stature in myriad ways: challenging President Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy to take bolder stances on civil rights, supporting African anticolonial leaders, and confronting the romantic racism of the Beat poets and Greenwich Village hipsters. In this watershed biography, Imani Perry takes us deep into Hansberry's relationships, explores her rich interior life and her influences, and, as Hansberry's papers were finally made available in 2010, unearths revealing themes from her unpublished writing. Looking for Lorraine gives us the ultimate gift of imagining Hansberry as a complete person--and of seeing her prodigious intellect, emotions, activism, and varied relationships at work together in her short but extraordinarily luminous life."--Jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Perry, I. (2018). Looking for Lorraine: the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry . Beacon Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Perry, Imani, 1972-. 2018. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry. Beacon Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Perry, Imani, 1972-. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Beacon Press, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Perry, Imani. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Beacon Press, 2018.
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