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Sohn, Hongeal. "Literature and Society: African-American Drama and American Race Relations," University of Iowa, November 1992. Advisor: Frederick Woodard (9, 1, 2)
This study views drama as a social event that includes various interactions between the author, the text, the middleman, the audience, and society of which the foregoing are part. The main focus is on Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959) and James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie (1964). These two dramas are treated as revealing intersections where some significant aspects of American race relations can be observed. Particular emphasis is laid on answering the following questions, among others. First, what perspectives the playwrights assumed on race relations, and how their perspectives were related to the racial climates of their times and to the actual representations of race relations in their dramas. Second, whether (and how) pressures from the middlemen affected the nature and shape of the race relations portrayed in the dramas. Finally, how the race relations in the dramas were received by Broadway audiences.
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