Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun". Conceptualizations of Black Womanhood

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen, language: English, abstract: Lorraine Hansberry, the author of A Raisin in the Sun, grew up in an activist family. Her parents both engaged in the fight against racial discrimination and segregration. Many icons of the early African American Civil Rights Movement, e.g., Langston Hughe...