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This collection presents Lorraine Hansberry’s final three plays—Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers—incorporating a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson. It serves as a definitive compendium of the playwright’s capstone contributions to American drama.
First publish date: 1983
Genre: Drama & Plays/Drama
Authors: Lorraine Hansberry
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