Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry / edited by Mollie Godfrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965, interviewee.

Contributor:

Godfrey, Mollie, 1979- editor.

Series:

Literary conversations series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965.

African American women dramatists--Interviews.

African American women dramatists.

Women dramatists, American--Interviews.

Women dramatists, American.

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965--Interviews.

Hansberry, Lorraine.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxv, 222 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

Summary:

"Spanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her early death from cancer in January 1965, Lorraine Hansberry's short stint in the public eye changed the landscape of American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry (1930-1965) became both the first African American woman to have a play produced on Broadway and the first to win the prestigious New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Resonating deeply with the aims of the civil rights movement, Raisin also ushered in a new era of black representation on the stage and screen, displacing the cartoonish stereotypes that were the remnants of blackface minstrelsy in favor of complex three-dimensional portrayals of black characters and black life. Hansberry's public discourse in the aftermath of Raisin's success also disrupted mainstream critical tendencies to diminish the work of black artists, helping pave the way for future work by black playwrights. Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry is the first volume to collect all of her substantive interviews in one place, including many radio and television interviews that have never before appeared in print. The twenty-one interviews collected here-ranging from just before the Broadway premier of A Raisin in the Sun to less than six months before Hansberry's death-offer an incredible window into Hansberry's aesthetic and political thought. In these conversations, Hansberry explores many of the questions most often put to black writers of the mid-twentieth century-including everything from her thinking about the relationship between art and protest, universality and particularity, and realism and naturalism, to her sense of the relationship between black intellectuals and the black masses, integration and Black Nationalism, and African American and Pan-African liberation. Taken together, these interviews reveal the insight, intensity, and eloquence that made Hansberry such a transformative figure in American letters"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Raisin Author Tells Meaning of Her Play / Lorraine Hansberry

A Playwright, a Promise: Lorraine Hansberry Reveals a Major Talent in the Forthcoming A Raisin in the Sun / Faye Hammel

Housewife's Play Is a Hit / Sidney Fields

We Have So Much to Say / Ted Poston

Ex-UW Co-ed Becomes "The Toast of New York" / Jack Gaver

Talk of the Town: Playwright / Lillian Ross

Interview with Lorraine Hansberry, Peter Glenville, Dore Schary, Jose Quintero, Lloyd Richards, and Arthur Laurents / David Susskind

The Protest, Part I / Rev. William Hamilton

Unaired Interview with Lorraine Hansberry / Mike Wallace

Interview with Lorraine Hansberry / Studs Terkel

An Author's Reflection: Willy Loman, Walter Lee, and He Who Must Live / Lorraine Hansberry

Five Writers and Their African Ancestors, Part II: Lorraine Hansberry / Harold R. Isaacs

The Negro in American Culture: Interview with James Baldwin, Emile Capouya, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, and Alfred Kazin / Nat Hentoff

Interview with Lorraine Hansberry, Leo Genn, Reginald Gardiner, and Elizabeth Seal / Mitch Miller

Interview with Lorraine Hansberry / Patricia Marx

Images and Essences: 1961 Dialogue with an Uncolored Egghead Containing Wholesome Intentions and Some Sass / Lorraine Hansberry

Interview with Lorraine Hansberry and Lloyd Richards / Frank Perry

Interview with Lorraine Hansberry / Eleanor Fischer

Miss Hansberry and Bobby K: Birthweight Low, Jobs Few, Death Comes Early / Diane Fisher

The Black Revolution and the White Backlash: A Town Hall Forum / Association of Artists for Freedom

A Lorraine Hansberry Rap / Margaret G. Burroughs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hansberry, Lorraine 1930-1965 Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry

ISBN:

9781496829634

1496829638

9781496829641

1496829646

OCLC:

1226072859

Publisher Number:

99986734824