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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some pencil annotations which could be erased. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> was a my was the youngest American playwright the fifth woman the only black writer and of course the first black woman writer to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for “Best Play of the Year.” When it was first produced A Raisin in the Sun was in many ways a counter-hegemonic cultural production. The play “interrogated” the fear within black people that being out of our place-not conforming to social norms especially those set by white supremacy would lead to destruction even death. On a basic level the play was about housing-the way racial segregation in a capitalist society meant that black folks were discriminated against when seek- ing places to live. It made it clear that the Younger family was not in- terested in being a part of white culture in assimilation; they wanted better housing. As counter-hegemonic cultural production the play A Raisin in the Sun was full of contradictions. Though anti-assimilationist it evoked the possibility of moving from one set of class values to an- other working-class people aspiring to middle-class lifestyles. The play promises that the traditional black folk culture and value system epitomized and expressed by Mama will be maintained in the new lo cation. These are the values that lead Mama to ask Walter Lee who thinks only about a capitalist materialist sense of success “Since when did money become life? (LL)