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The Concept of "Home" in Lorraine Hansberry’s Plays

Author: WangAnNa
Tutor: LiuHaiPing
School: Suzhou University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Home Africa Support assimilationist American Dream Double consciousness
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2008
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Black female playwright Lorraine. Han Si Beili life is short, but left us with a valuable cultural heritage, including the drama \\\Another drama \These two plays are focused African theme explores the social problems of apartheid, colonialism, Africans and African-Americans suffering and revolt. This article focuses on these two plays explore the implicit attitude and drama of Africa Africans and African-Americans looking for a stable home. This paper is divided into five parts. The introductory section focuses on the life experiences of the Han Si Beili, as well as key figures inspired her concern about Africa and influenced her thinking development. After three chapters, the thesis analysis the characters in the the Han Si Beili two drama and its treatment of African treat identity different attitude at home, where, in order to reflect the Han Si Beili ideological identity with the concept of home. The first chapter focuses on the analysis of Africans and affluent part of the drama of African-Americans. They live permanently in the environment of colonial or racial discrimination, and disseminated by the white culture, the subconscious has to accept the white man's culture and social system. African-style home in their thinking, the kind of erosion from white culture vanished. The Han Si Beili think of these people can be called to support the assimilationist her negative attitude to such people that she was opposed to the concept of the assimilationist. African-American part of life in the second chapter theater distress. Though they be in the United States the bottom of society, but have the U.S. as their permanent home. Content with family life, especially the women, they never thought to return to Africa ancestors lived off the land, while struggling to maintain their own dignity as black, want to find a black man can settle the home of life in the United States. Black male With higher that the American dream, hope that success in our cause and to improve the social status in the United States. However, color determines they are looking for a safe home and raise the status of the dream is very difficult to achieve. Although born in a wealthy family, Han Si Beili, also suffered the same life experiences and suffered torture homeless. Han Si Beili expressed her sympathy for such people, that as long as the existence of racial discrimination and apartheid, African Americans is difficult to find a safe and comfortable home, this home sense will continue. The third chapter focuses on the analysis plays portray the younger generation, they are thinking of young avant-garde intellectuals from Africa or African Americans. This generation represents the point of view of the political thought of Han Si Beili towards Africa. They have to study in the United States or of life, determined to return to Africa, shoulder to save Africa, to rebuild the historic mission of the African homeland. Han Si Beili trying road through them looking for a return home to Africa. Concluded that the two discuss Africa's screenplay of Han Si Beili not Africa portrayed as a perfect image of the homeland, and also not be ignored by Europe and the United States education of Intellectuals from Africa and the African-Americans as American citizens who double consciousness. On the part of Africans, Africa is their eternal home, but the construction of our homes will be long and difficult road; African-Americans, on the other part, the United States is their true home, really abandon the home of the United States back to the ancestral home seems a difficult determination under. From Han Si Beili script, we can see the identity crisis of the African-American intellectuals in this historical period and ambivalence.

The Concept of "Home" in Lorraine Hansberry’s Plays

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