Understanding a Raisin in the Sun: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

by Lynn Domina and Lorraine Hansberry

Book Overview

A Raisin in the Sun is the first play by a black woman to be produced in a Broadway theater. First performed in 1959, before the civil rights and women's movements came to the fore, it raises issues of segregation, family strife, and relationships between men and women that are both representative of the time and timeless in their universality. This interdisciplinary collection of commentary and forty-five primary documents will enrich the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313303495
• ISBN13: 9780313303494
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12