Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun

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Lorraine Hansberry

Houff Library Resources to use for finding:

1. Criticism of A Raisin in the Sun
2. Biographical Information on Lorraine Hansberry

Print Sources
1. Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 17, p. 182 & Volume 62, p.209.
Call Number - Ref PN 81 .C6 v.17,62

2. Masterpieces of African American Literature, p. 467-470.
Call Number Ref PS 153 .N5 M264 1992.

3. Masterplots II Drama Series, Volume 3, p. 1300-1303.
Call Number Ref PN 6112.5 .M37 1990 v.3

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3. Voices of Multicultural America, p. 487-491.
Call Number - Ref PS 663 .M55 V64 1996

5. Concise Dictionary of Literary Biography The New Consciousness, 1941-1968, p. 244-258.
Call Number - Ref PS 129 C66 v. 5.

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