A Survey Of African American Vernacular English Considering The Drama A Raisin In The Sun By Lorraine Vivian Hansberry As An Example

Author : Jessica Schweke
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638782838

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A Survey of African American Vernacular English, Considering the Drama 'A Raisin in the Sun' by Lorraine Vivian Hansberry as an Example by Jessica Schweke Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, course: 'Varieties and Variability of English' - Proseminar 'English as a World Language', 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper will give an overview of some distinctive features of African American Vernacular English. Since drama in general aims to demonstrate everyday speech, I will also give evidence from the drama "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Vivian Hansberry from 1959. This will underline these features as well as their use and show their practicability in speech. Generally speaking, the term vernacular describes a variety of speech which is often analyzed in contrast to the Standard of a language and which is used by a certain group of speakers. The term African American Vernacular English (AAVE) thus describes a dialect used by African Americans. In course of time this variety has also been called "Black Vernacular English, Vernacular Black English, Black English Vernacular, Afro-American English, or simply Black English". (Crystal 2003: 491) The African American Vernacular is a variety of the English language that "has set phonological (system of sounds), morphological (system of structure of words and relationship among words), syntactic (system of sentence structure), semantic (system of meaning) and lexical (structural organization of vocabulary items and other information) patterns". (Green 2002: 1) In the course of this term paper I will take a closer look at these patterns. However, it has to be kept in mind that even though these features are characteristics of the African American speech variety, not every African American uses this variety. Additionally, some speakers use certain features more often than others, depending on the speaker's age, social status, the situation of communication or the person they hold a conversation with. Belonging to the African American

Author : Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015056943106

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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Pdf

The award-winning, now classic drama about a working-class African-American family on the South Side of Chicago--their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations.

Author : Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780679601722

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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Pdf

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun." "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic." This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.

Author : Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : African American families
ISBN : OCLC:1005927454

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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Pdf

Lorraine Hansberry's copy of the typescript for the groundbreaking play which made its debut on Broadway in 1959. With Hansberry's ownership signature on title page, "Lorraine's copy", and notes and corrections throughout. The title Raisin in the sun comes from Langston Hughes' poem "Harlem" (later "A dream deferred"), which appears in full on the second leaf.

Author : Lorraine 1930-1965 Hansberry
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013700368

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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine 1930-1965 Hansberry Pdf

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Author : Judd Woldin,Robert Nemiroff,Charlotte Zaltzberg,Robert Brittan
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573680868

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Raisin by Judd Woldin,Robert Nemiroff,Charlotte Zaltzberg,Robert Brittan Pdf

Based on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Musical Drama / 9m, 6f, chorus and extras / Unit set This winner of Tony and Grammy awards as Best Musical ran for three years on Broadway and enjoyed a record breaking national tour. A proud family's quest for a better life meets conflicts that span three generations and set the stage for a drama rich in emotion and laughter. Taking place on Chicago's Southside, it explodes in song, dance, drama and comedy. "Pure magic ... dazzling! Tremen

Author : Rebecca Ann Rugg,Harvey Young
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810128132

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Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun by Rebecca Ann Rugg,Harvey Young Pdf

This book is a collection of four contemporary plays that reflect the themes of racial and cultural difference of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun.

Author : Hansberry Lorraine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 163245033X

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A Raisin in the Sun by Hansberry Lorraine Pdf

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and hailed as a watershed in American drama. Not only was it a pioneering work by an African-American playwright-Lorraine Hansberry's play was also

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1637004281

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CRITICAL INSIGHTS by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jakub Duch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783346090577

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Pan-Africanism and Black Assimilation in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" by Jakub Duch Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Hamburg, language: English, abstract: This seminar paper explains the historical and biographical background of Lorraine Hansberry's writing "A Raisin in the Sun". The African American intelligentsia has always been torn between assimilating into a society built by and for white people, and the longing for a deeper connection with Africa and its cultures. Hansberry, the most talented African American playwright of the post-war era, tackles this issue by using two male figures as antagonists in her play which is one of the all-time classics of black American literature. Apart from its witty dialogues and the realistic and authentic characters, the many issues the play comments on make it stand out. For an analyst of literature, there are many possibilities of examining it further. One possibility could be the role segregation (and the struggle to overcome it) plays in "A Raisin in the Sun", since Lorraine Hansberry’s father fought in court for his right to move into a predominately white neighborhood. Another way of studying the play could perhaps lay the focus onto Hansberry’s feminism and the representation of gender roles in it, since it features various strong female characters. One could also analyze the play as a comment on capitalist ideology, the American dream and the poor’s desperate quest for material well-being. However, I decided to analyze the actions of two characters that symbolically stand for two different ways African Americans can choose: identification with blackness and Africa and assimilationism are represented by the characters of Asagai and George Murchison, respectively. The stark contrast between the two, the scenario of Beneatha choosing between them, and the way Hansberry employed the literary technique of personification were the reason this aspect of the play appeared the most interesting.

Author : Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher : Everbind
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : African American families
ISBN : 0971075689

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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Pdf

Among our greatest dramatic works that also makes for great student reading.

Author : Gabriel Sutton
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656253341

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Theme Analysis: Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" by Gabriel Sutton Pdf

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, course: ENG 502, language: English, abstract: Lorraine Hansberry’s Tony Award-nominated play, A Raisin in the Sun, spotlights the dreams and struggles of an African American family in mid-1950s Chicago. This was a time before affirmative action, when racial tensions were at their peak. Changes in public opinion and legislation were leading to race riots all over the nation. Through character relationships, dialogue and conflict, Lorraine Hansberry shows how classism, discrimination and gender roles inhibited minorities at the height of the Civl Rights Movement.

Author : Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : American drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106014299405

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Les Blancs: the Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry by Lorraine Hansberry Pdf

Three plays about the struggles of black people convey the author's feelings of anger and frustration.

Author : Holt Rinehart & Winston
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0030551072

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Sg Raisin in the Sun W/Conn by Holt Rinehart & Winston Pdf

Author : Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : African American families
ISBN : UCSC:32106008007350

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A Raisin in the Sun ; and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry Pdf

"The Broadway revival of 'A Raisin in the Sun' was produced by Scott Rudin at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on April 3, 2014. The production was directed by Kenny Leon, with set design by Mark Thompson..."--Page [9].