To Be(come) Young, Gay, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry’s Existentialist Routes to Anticolonialism

摘要: after arriving in Harlem, Lorraine Hansberry began writing for Paul Robeson's anti-imperialist and anticapitalist newspaper, Freedom. Sharing offices with the Council on African Affairs (CAA), Freedom put midst of a black leftist network including Robeson, W. E. B. Du Bois (with whom she studied history culture), Louis Burnham, Alice Childress, Shirley Graham which connected domestic civil rights struggles to those liberation. Within this milieu, wrote review panning Richard Wright's novel The Outsider m an April 1953 issue Asserting that protagonist, Cross Damon, "is someone you will never meet Southside Chicago or Harlem," "Wright has been away from home long time," reiterated wider critical views exilic Wright had applied foreign, inauthentic existentialist tenets American experience aesthetically politically disastrous results. concludes, "He exalts brutality nothingness; he negates reality our struggle freedom yet works energetically behalf [sic] oppressors; lost his own dignity destroyed talent."1 Recovering hybridity Atlantic thought culture, Gilroy questions such dismissive readings s existentialism,