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...
Textual Features
Adrienne Rich
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.
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.
