From the Bookshelf of Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
Yeah, so this is pretty much perfect. Also, I have to say that even though I have seen the movie version, and I knew it was coming, I still had to put my Kindle down and take a break after Walter (view spoiler). It just makes me SO MAD every single time.
Also, it just infuriates me on so many levels that men somehow think their pain and their dreams are somehow more important than everyone else's. The sheer selfishness and entitlement. Sure, toxic masculinity b ...more
Also, it just infuriates me on so many levels that men somehow think their pain and their dreams are somehow more important than everyone else's. The sheer selfishness and entitlement. Sure, toxic masculinity b ...more
Feb 11, 2022
Nadine in NY Jones
rated it
it was amazing
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
plays,
read-for-school
It's a classic for a reason. I don't usually enjoy plays, but I found this so engaging, it was like reading a novel. It's amazing that she was so young when she wrote this, and a great sadness that she died just a few years later.
...more
I read this book shortly after finishing bell hooks' Ain't I A Woman, in which she discusses A Raisin in the Sun, and it helped me contextualize the play in a way I may not have otherwise. A Raisin in the Sun centers seemingly all the issues facing Black USAmericans in the early second half of the twentieth century around the life of the Younger family, with different family members representing different struggles. In the Younger house, we see plot points about Black churches, the Pan-African m
...more
Just finished reading this with my American Lit class.
May 18, 2009
Camille
rated it
it was amazing
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
plays,
african-american
Feb 05, 2024
Jessica Haider
rated it
really liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
bipoc-author
