{"product_id":"conversations-with-lorraine-hansberry-hardcover","title":"Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMollie Godfrey\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention Recipient of the Modern Language Association Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning from the debut of \u003ci\u003eA Raisin in the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eA Raisin in the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003e Raisin \u003c\/i\u003ealso 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 \u003ci\u003eRaisin\u003c\/i\u003e's success also disrupted mainstream critical tendencies to diminish the work of Black artists, helping pave the way for future work by Black playwrights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eConversations with Lorraine Hansberry\u003c\/i\u003e 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 pieces collected here--ranging from just before the Broadway premiere of \u003ci\u003eA Raisin in the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMollie Godfrey\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English at James Madison University. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eNeo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 28, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47413886320818,"sku":"9781496829634","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/de0ba3b7c17e020be28fb9748f8bb94d_6953d0c6-846e-4d19-936d-3f3757d903fd.webp?v=1778362090","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/conversations-with-lorraine-hansberry-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}