According to Du.Bois's perspective Investigation of double consciousness in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: African American Literature is literature created in the United States by writers of African heritage. These writers use creative writing to create their own unique literature with expressive complexity and social insight, providing insightful appraisals of American identities and history. This paper investigate double consciousness in Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun. Double consciousness, according to W.E.B. Du Bios, a feeling that black Americans of African descent are forced to see themselves through the lens of the dominant white society, is constitute an essential and important framework In Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun. The play takes place in the 1950s in Chicago. it revealed Younger family's aspirations for social ascent and a better life also reveals the complexities of identity and the impact of social and racial constraints on personal dreams by analyzing the personal motives for some behaviors and the conflict between generations .this article investigate how double consciousness impacts the self-perception within Africans Americans who opposed for systematic oppression. this investigation is not only highlighting the psychological affect and social prejudice on individual but also clarify how Hansberry’s characters resist and redefine identity under Du Bois’s framework, ultimately affirming the resilience within marginalized communities.
DOI: 10.53796/hnsj62/32
Author: Safaa Sattar AL-Dammy1
Institution: Ahl Al Bayt University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4407063219