History, myth, and revolt in Lorraine Hansberry's 'Les Blancs.' (drama by African American woman author)

African American Review | June 22, 1998| | Copyright

Lorraine Hansberry began drafting Les Blancs (The Whites) as early as 1960, soon after the publication of her remarkably successful A Raisin in the Sun (1959). But it was not until 1970 that Robert Nemiroff, her former husband, put together the published version of the drama. In Les Blancs Hansberry expands on the attention given to Africa in Raisin, where Asagai, the Nigerian intellectual and activist, is used to fortify and scrutinize the familial, political, and cultural bond between Africa and Black America - subsequently portraying an African ancestral milieu that is ...

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