Lorraine Hansberry: Defining the Line Between Integration and Assimilation

Saber, Yomna

doi:10.1080/00497878.2010.484330

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“…(Saber, 2010, p. 455). Saber (2010) emphasizes that "the question remains ambiguously answered in Hansberry's realism, despite the allusion in the title of the play, because it is not clear by the play's end what happens to the family's dream of integration. "…”

Section: Genuine Realism As a Therapeutic Mode Of Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…. but rather embodies Hughes’s poem ‘Harlem’ which poses the question: ‘What happens to a dream differed?’” followed by other questions, the last of which is “Or does it explode?” (Saber, 2010, p. 455). Saber (2010) emphasizes that “the question remains ambiguously answered in Hansberry’s realism, despite the allusion in the title of the play, because it is not clear by the play’s end what happens to the family’s dream of integration.”…”

Section: Genuine Realism As a Therapeutic Mode Of Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The (Ir)Representability of the Belated Traumatic Wound in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

Haj

2021

Journal of Black Studies

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The dissociation of the traumatic moment from memory makes articulating the traumatic experience problematic. Henceforth, trauma becomes an inexplicable wound that can be narrated in a myriad of ways, yet none of which has a closure. The traumatized subjects are in need for expressing their pain, especially that telling one’s story and finding witnesses to the experience is therapeutic in the case of trauma. Thus, writers strive to represent their personal trauma and/or their collective one through various techniques to convey the experience as authentically as possible. Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is a remarkable endeavor to articulate the author’s own traumatic childhood experience, as well as the broader trauma of African American people who have suffered so long because of slavery and its aftermath. This paper argues that Hansberry’s A Raisin addresses trauma and represents it through four major techniques: the choice of drama as a genre, the mode of genuine realism, intertextuality, and symbolism. To realize this purpose, the study explores the play in light of the theoretical framework of trauma studies, starting from its outset with Freud’s essential concepts, and moving to Cathy Caruth’s and Shoshana Felman’s integral contributions to the field.

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Section: Genuine Realism As a Therapeutic Mode Of Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Genuine Realism As a Therapeutic Mode Of Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The (Ir)Representability of the Belated Traumatic Wound in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

Haj

2021

Journal of Black Studies

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“Something Apart, Yet an Integral Part”: Duke Ellington's Harlem and the Nexus of Race and Nation

Matlin

2021

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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Harlem loomed large in the imagination of Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, one of the twentieth century's most significant composers and an important theorist of the condition of being black and American. This article provides insights into Ellington's social thought by foregrounding his evocations of Harlem and his efforts to interpolate that neighborhood into the physical, cultural, and imaginative spaces of US national life. In doing so, it also situates Ellington's ideas in relation to the competing intellectual currents of the Harlem Renaissance movement that had inspired his project of racial vindication. More broadly, the article argues that understanding of the history of African American ideas of race and nation benefits from analysis of discursive place-making and the spatial practices of artistic and intellectual work. Attending to space and place recuperates the complexity and multiplicity of such ideas, which are often concealed by abstracted discussion of concepts such as “integration.”

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The Roof of a Southern Home: A Reimagined and Usable South in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

Murray¹

2015

Mississippi Quarterly

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Lorraine Hansberry: Defining the Line Between Integration and Assimilation

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

The (Ir)Representability of the Belated Traumatic Wound in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

The (Ir)Representability of the Belated Traumatic Wound in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

“Something Apart, Yet an Integral Part”: Duke Ellington's Harlem and the Nexus of Race and Nation

The Roof of a Southern Home: A Reimagined and Usable South in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

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