Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?
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New Revised Version5 black m 3 white m 2 white f 1 black f 6 extras including 1 childUnit setBest American play of 1970 Les Blancs prophetically confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in revolution.... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0679755322
ISBN13:9780679755326
Release Date:December 1994
Publisher:Vintage
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"
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Much more powerful than Raisin in the Sun
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Lorraine Hansberry is best remembered for "Raisin in the Sun" which, even today, many feel is a strong statement against racism. However, "Raisin" pales in comparison to "Les Blancs", a much more militant and radical statement which, I have not doubt, must have genuinely frightened the liberal establishment in the 1960's. This play was decades ahead of it's time and it is no wonder that the more comfortable "Raisin" is what Ms Hansberry is mostly remembered for. Anyone who knows both of these works will realize that the world lost a great treasure when cancer stole this brilliant African-American lesbian's life from us when she was just 34. (Although Ms. Hansberry, married a white Jewish man, Robert Nemiroff in 1953, the couple separated in 1957 and divorced in 1964. She wrote some articles for "The Ladder", the first lesbian periodical in the United States, in the late 1950's.)
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