Gender in Lorraine Hansberry's a Raisin in the Sun

by Gary Wiener

Book Overview

The landmark play A Raisin in the Sun takes its title from a Langston Hughes poem which poses the questions What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Focusing on a working-class African-American family in Chicago who save enough to purchase either a business in a black neighborhood or a house in a white neighborhood, the plays exposes issues of racism and gender as the women of the family make important decisions that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0737750235
• ISBN13: 9780737750232
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 15 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 10 to 12