AR
focusses on such authors as Lorraine Hansberry
and Elizabeth Bishop
; on women's roles in academia; and on the shaping of the subjectivities of lesbian, Jewish, and other minority women in America.
Textual Features
Alice Walker
Here AW
continues to protest the wrongs of others and of herself. The Diamonds on Liz's Bosom (referencing film star Elizabeth Taylor
and diamond-mining in Africa) says wryly: Oh, those Africans! / Everywhere you...
Timeline
11 March 1959: With the opening of A Raisin in the Sun,...
Writing climate item
11 March 1959
With the opening of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
became the first black woman to have a play produced on Broadway.
