Radical Vision

A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry

Radical Vision
Soyica Diggs Colbert
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8 Mar 2022 US
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9780300264784
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In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica Diggs Colbert considers the playwright' s life at the intersection of art and politics, with the theater operating as a "rehearsal room for [her] political and intellectual work. " Colbert argues that the success of Raisin overshadows Hansberry' s other contributions, including the writer' s innovative journalism and lesser known plays touching on controversial issues such as slavery, interracial communities, and black freedom movements. Colbert also details Hansberry' s unique involvement in the black freedom struggles during the Cold War and the early civil rights movement, in order to paint a full portrait of her life and impact. Drawing from Hansberry' s papers, speeches, and interviews, this book presents its subject as both a playwright and a political activist. It also reveals a new perspective on the roles of black women in mid-twentieth-century political movements.
"Here is Hansberry resurrected from the archives, from her scripts, scraps and drafts. . . . Colbert adds detail and dimension to Hansberry' s work. . . . Loving, lavishly detailed. "-Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Colbert . . . has accomplished the mighty task of resurfacing and reconciling the many facets that Hansberry possessed. . . . A devoted and deeply felt account of the development of an artist' s mind. "-Dave Itzkoff, New York Times Book Review "Colbert makes the study of Hansberry' s literary work inseparable from her lived experience of complicating identity categories. This exquisite biography of Hansberry is groundbreaking. "-Margo Natalie Crawford, University of Pennsylvania "Colbert offers a luminous, Black feminist study of the life of the mind of one of our most formidable cultural intellectuals. Combining dazzling archival research with rigorous and expansive close-readings of rare documents and Hansberry' s rich range of dramatic works, Radical Vision attests to the fact that the world of the Black woman artist is ' a story of ideas' urgently in need of telling. "-Daphne A. Brooks, author of Liner Notes for the Revolution "A rich narrative that takes readers on a journey through Hansberry' s intellectual life, as she reckons with some of the most difficult aesthetic and political problems of her time-and ours. "-Paige A. McGinley, Washington University in St. Louis
Soyica Diggs Colbert is the vice dean of faculty and Idol Family Professor of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University.
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ISBN-13: 9780300264784
Published: 8 Mar 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 24mm
Width: 16mm
Pages: 288

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