By Lorraine Hansberry
Listed below are Lorraine Hansberry's final 3 plays--Les Blancs, The ingesting Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her success. incorporates a new preface by means of Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised advent through Margaret B. Wilkerson.
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The one issue that deeply concerned her but that she did not address publicly was homosexuality. The repressive atmosphere of the 1950s, coupled with the homophobia of the general society, including politically left organizations, caused her to suppress her writings that explored issues of sexuality and gender relations. Nevertheless, she pushed and teased these boundaries by probing the nature of the individual within the specifics of culture, ethnicity, and gender. In the midst of her expansiveness, she refused to diminish the pain, suffering or truths of any one group in order to benefit another, a factor which made her plays particularly rich and her characters thoroughly complex.
Always where human beings oppress each other, she felt, that which is central to the oppression can be defined and confronted. Only in the recognition and confrontation is there any chance of defeating the enemies of humankind. ” Hansberry walked in history, I have said, particularly in the intermingled history of Africans and African Americans. The threads run throughout her works. , and Lena, his wife, were among the great body of Southern black migrants from South to North before World War I, making their way to what they hoped would be better lives for themselves and their children and children’s children.
Y. 10019. Particular emphasis is laid on the question of readings. Y. 10036. The amateur acting rights of The Drinking Gourd and What Use Are Flowers? are controlled exclusively by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff, Executrix of the Estate of Robert Nemiroff. The Drinking Gourd: Copyright © 1969 by Robert Nemiroff and Robert Nemiroff, as Executor of the Estate of Lorraine Hansberry. Portions of Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers? were first published in To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words.
