Criticism

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

Online Sources - be sure and follow all the steps on our Remote Access Directions page to be able to access these databases from your home computer


Literature Resource Center(VIVA) - Click on Title and then select Exact Title.  Type in raisin in the sun.  Then under Author, type in hansberry.

 JSTOR - BRCC now subscribes to all of JSTOR's modules, which includes the Language & Literature module, which will have articles prior to 1980.

MLA International Bibliography (VIVA)  - Try searching with the terms: raisin in the sun AND hansberry

Can't find the article you want full-text?  Try these two tactics:
1.  Type in the journal name in these two links:  VIVA Online Journal Locator or the VCCS Online Journal Search  They will tell you which of our databases, if any, index that particular journal.  Maybe it will be full-text in a different database than you tried originally.
2.  Try typing the article title in Google.  Sometimes you can find it free on the author's home page or in an online journal.

Biographical Information 

Print Sources

1. Contemporary Authors, Volume 30 & 50
    Call Number - Ref Z 1224 . C58

2. American Writers, Volume 2,  p. 621
    Call Number - Ref PS 129 .A58 1998 v. 2

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

4. African American Writers, p. 147-158.
    Call Number - Ref PS 153 .N5 A344 1990

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

Online Sources

Literature Resource Center (VIVA)   Full-text articles available
Lorraine Hansberry - A Chronology

Searching the World Wide Web

Be careful limiting your research to the world wide web only. A web search MAY NOT yield authoritative sites for biographical and critical information on Lorraine HAnsberry and A Raisin in the Sun. See examples below

Here are some results using the following search strategies in Altavista and Northern Light:
1. +"raisin in the sun" +"hansberry"
2. +"raisin in the sun" +"criticism"

Example 1. Voices From Gaps: Women Writers of Color (Biography, Bibliography and Related Links)
Example 2. The San Antonio College LitWeb Lorraine Hansberry Page
Example 3. Online Concordance to A Raisin in the Sun (Complete "Searchable" Dialogue of the Play).

Style Manuals

Citing Sources from Duke University
MLA Guide from Purdue's On-line Writing Lab 
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