A Raisin in the Sun Study Guide

Author of ClassicNote and Sources

Cheryl Sherrod, author of ClassicNote. Completed on April 29, 2006, copyright held by GradeSaver.

Updated and revised by Jordan Berkow June 15, 2006. Copyright held by GradeSaver.

Cheney, Anne. Lorraine Hansberry. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994.

Domina, Lynn. Understanding A Raisin in the Sun: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Scheader, Catherine. Lorraine Hansberry: Playwright and Voice of Justice. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1998.

Abramson, Doris E. "The Fifties." Negro Playwrights in American Theatre, 1925-59. Columbia University Pr. 1969. 165-266. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz. Vol. 62. Detroit: Gale, 1991.

Baraka, Amiri. "A Raisin in the Sun's Enduring Passion." A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Ed. Robert Nemiroff. New York: New American Library, 1987. 9-20.

Bigsby, C.W. E. "Lorraine Hansberry." Confrontation and Commitment: A Study of Contemporary American Drama, 1959-66. University of Missouri Pr. 1968. 156-73. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz. Vol. 62. Detroit: Gale, 1991.

Brown, Lioyd W/. "Lorraine Hansberry as Ironist: A Repraisal of 'A Raisin in the Sun'." The Journal of Black Studies. Vol. 4, No.3, March 1974. 237-247. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz. Vol. 62. Detroit: Gale, 1991.

Cruse, Harold. "Lorraine Hansberry." The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. William Morrow & Company, Inc. 1967. 267-84. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz. Vol. 62. Detroit: Gale, 1991.

"Lorraine Hansberry" Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz. Vol. 62. Detroit: Gale, 1991.

Morton-Mollo, Sherry. "Lorraine Hansberry." Great American Writers Twentieth Century. Ed. R. Baird Shuman. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2002.

Nemiroff, Robert. "Introduction." A Raisin in the Sun. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Short, Hugh. "Hansberry, Lorraine." Critical Survey of Drama: Second Revised Edition. Ed. Maria Irene Fornes and Tina Howe. Vol. 3. Pasedena, Ca: Salem Press, Inc., 2003.

Hansberry, Lorraine. "Willy Loman, Walter younger, and He Who Must Live." The Village Voice. Vol IV, No. 42, August 12, 1959. 7-8. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz. Vol. 62. Detroit: Gale, 1991.