Abstract
In Norris’s Clybourne Park – being inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun – a battle over race and real estate rages across two generations in a suburban Chicago neighborhood. With a modern twist on issues of race, class, property ownership and community, Clybourne Park revolves around discrimination, gentrification and political correctness. The idea of the play came to Norris when he was a child. He said that the first play he saw at school was Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. In an interview with Beatrice Basso (2011), he speaks about the play and says: I was obsessed with that play [A Raisin in the
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