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This paper aims to explore the theatrical strategies which Lorraine Hansberry employs in A Raisin in the Sunto challenge the workings of the white supremacist system. The realistic setting, the depiction of characters and the adoption of the quiet conversational tone in the black vernacular, are argued to be the tools the play uses to generate public testimony of urban black life, to present a penetrating truth about the interior life of the blacks and also to provide a prophetic vision of the rising tide of anger in the US and in the world. The analysis is informed by W.E.B. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk in which the author, through a series of articles, comments on the painful psychological and social experience of the Blacks in America. The paper concludes that the realism of Raisin is capable of communicating a powerful message of resistance in no less effective manner than that achieved, by the experimental theatre. Raisin exposes the oppressors, their tools of oppression and the ensuing consequences of that oppression.
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