Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry / Imani Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Imani, 1972- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965.

Hansberry, Lorraine.

Dramatists, American--20th century--Biography.

Dramatists, American.

African American dramatists.

African American dramatists--Biography.

African American women civil rights workers--Biography.

African American women civil rights workers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

BOSTON : BEACON, 2018.

Boston : Beacon Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2018).

Other Format:

Print version: Perry, Imani, 1972- Looking for Lorraine.

ISBN:

9780807064504

0807064505

Publisher Number:

99984694593

15698271

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.