/Resources 433 0 R /Resources 167 0 R A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) was their first incubator and in 2012 they became an independent organization. 115 0 obj [12][13] She attended the University of WisconsinMadison, where she immediately became politically active with the Communist Party USA and integrated a dormitory. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 647 0 R Through a series of close readings, Colbert examines how her writing, published and unpublished, offers a road map to negotiate Black suffering in the past and present.. A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay. /Annots 602 0 R Hansberry noted similarities between Nannie Hansberry and Mama Younger and between Carl Hansberry and Big Walter. [39] Upon his ex-wife's death, Robert Nemiroff donated all of Hansberry's personal and professional effects to the New York Public Library. On the eightieth anniversary of Hansberry's birth, Adjoa Andoh presented a BBC Radio 4 program entitled Young, Gifted and Black in tribute to her life.[68]. "Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Creator of 'Raisin in the Sun'." >> /Annots 494 0 R /Type /Page [ /Pattern /DeviceRGB ] DuBois and Freedom editor Louis Burnham. When the play opens, the Youngers are about to receive an insurance check for $10,000. 162 0 obj /Contents 348 0 R endobj >> 128 0 obj >> endobj In 2014, the play was revived on Broadway again in a production starring Denzel Washington, directed again by Kenny Leon; it won three Tony Awards, for Best Revival of a Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play for Sophie Okonedo, and Best Direction of a Play. /Resources 634 0 R Episode Notes. >> "[44], Hansberry wrote two screenplays of Raisin, both of which were rejected as controversial by Columbia Pictures. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 294 0 R Her father was a real estate broker, and her mother a schoolteacher Her parents publicly fought discrimination against Black people. /Resources 568 0 R endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Lorraine Hansberry Biography Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois. /Contents 591 0 R << When Irvine read the lyrics after it was finished, he thought, "I didn't write this. /Contents 450 0 R The fascinating facts about Lorraine Hansberry following illustrate her development as a Black woman, activist, and writer. The Washington, D.C., office searched her passport files "in an effort to obtain all available background material on the subject, any derogatory information contained therein, and a photograph and complete description," while officers in Milwaukee and Chicago examined her life history. /Parent 1 0 R After the success of A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry used her prominence in myriad ways: challenging President Kennedy and his brother to take bolder . /Parent 1 0 R She has a habit of making arresting asides and then refusing to follow their trail: Hansberrys writing suggests that she understood Blackness to implicitly include what we would now describe as queerness.. Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry by Soyica Diggs Colbert. endobj endobj /Parent 1 0 R To be young, gifted, and black. [27] Before her death, she built a circle of gay and lesbian friends, took several lovers, vacationed in Provincetown (where she enjoyed, in her words, "a gathering of the clan"),[38] and subscribed to several homophile magazines. << The success of the hit pop song "Cindy, Oh Cindy", co-authored by Nemiroff, enabled Hansberry to start writing full-time. << >> Lewis, Jone Johnson. /Annots 190 0 R Beneatha is me, eight years ago, she explained. [45], In 1963, Hansberry participated in a meeting with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, set up by James Baldwin. << /Annots 437 0 R << << At Freedom, she worked with W. E. B. /Contents 360 0 R /Contents 597 0 R The 29-year-old author became the youngest American playwright and only the fifth woman to receive the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Lorraine Hansberry Biography Lorraine Hansberry was born at Provident Hospital on the South Side of Chicago on May 19, 1930. /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R C *" /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 434 0 R /Type /Page endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 57 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /Annots 356 0 R /Type /Page >> /Annots 245 0 R endobj [3][4][5] Before her marriage, she had written in her personal notebooks about her attraction to women. 161 0 obj endobj Her commitment to realism was absolute, a matter of moral principle. /Annots 551 0 R The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, she later wrote, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely., Hansberry died in 1965, at 34, of cancer. /Type /Page 100 0 obj /Resources 274 0 R /Type /Page /Type /Page /Annots 248 0 R /Type /Page Beyond question! >> 43 0 obj endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 379 0 R /Type /Page /Annots 212 0 R Hansberry reviewed Wrights fiction a little uncharitably, to my mind. >> endobj 87 0 obj /Type /Page << 82 0 obj Neither of the surgeries was successful in removing the cancer. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 492 0 R 22 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 181 0 R 27 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 228 0 R << /Type /Page In 2017, Hansberry was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. << The Hansberry's were routinely visited by prominent black people, including sociology professor W. E. B. /Annots 638 0 R /Resources 340 0 R Hansberry began to circulate the play, trying to interest producers, investors, and actors. A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry 2004-11-29 "Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of . << We never talked about men or clothes or other such inconsequential things when we got together, Nina Simone wrote of Hansberry in her memoir. >> The title is taken from a speech given by Hansberry in May 1964 to winners of a United Negro Fund writing competition: though it be thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so, doubly dynamic, to be young, gifted and black!, BiblioWeb: webapp03 Version 4.9.1 Last updated 2023/02/16 09:37. Her father built a real estate empire by chopping up. ThoughtCo, Jan. 2, 2021, thoughtco.com/lorraine-hansberry-biography-3528287. There has been Imani Perrys 2018 book Looking for Lorraine and Tracy Heather Strains 2017 documentary Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart. The pre-eminent Hansberry scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson has a book in the works. << /Resources 397 0 R /Contents 579 0 R << /Contents 546 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] There is the now famous story of her confrontation with Robert Kennedy, who as attorney general in 1963 convened a group of Black activists and intellectuals. /Resources 466 0 R In 2010, Hansberry was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. /Type /Page /Annots 311 0 R In the public eye, she was the slim and pleasing housewife, the accidental playwright featured in a photo spread in Vogue. 30 0 obj /Type /Page << >> /Resources 328 0 R 93 0 obj << /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] [39] James Baldwin believed "it is not at all farfetched to suspect that what she saw contributed to the strain which killed her, for the effort to which Lorraine was dedicated is more than enough to kill a man. << /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 336 0 R [54] Along these lines, she wrote a critical review of Richard Wright's The Outsider and went on to style her final play Les Blancs as a foil to Jean Genet's absurdist Les Ngres. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" /Contents 447 0 R 131 0 obj 86 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /Annots 193 0 R /Resources 487 0 R /Resources 355 0 R /Parent 1 0 R Lorraine's uncle, William Leo Hansberry, taught African history at Howard University. At the triumphant premiere of Raisin, at the standing ovation and the calls for playwright to take the stage, she initially refused to leave her seat. >> /Resources 367 0 R /Annots 491 0 R /Type /Page /Contents 267 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Anderson, "Freedom Family" (2008), p. 260. endobj << Whites fought back. To those around them, the Hansberrys were inspirational both parents were college . /Resources 289 0 R endobj /Annots 368 0 R 31 0 obj /Resources 448 0 R /Parent 1 0 R 1930-36. /Resources 640 0 R /Parent 1 0 R Her father founded Lake Street Bank, one of the first banks for blacks in Chicago, and ran a successful real estate business. 62 0 obj [6] The latter's legal efforts to force the Hansberry family out culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Hansberry v. Lee, 311 U.S. 32 (1940). /Type /Page "[46] Simone wrote the song with the poet Weldon Irvine and told him that she wanted lyrics that would "make black children all over the world feel good about themselves forever." Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest of four children born to Carl A. Hansberry and Nanny Perry Hansberry on Chicago's South Side. Theres an odd narrowness to her vision. /Type /Page A Raisin in the Sun Summary. endstream In 2013, more than twenty years after Nemiroff's death, the new executor released the restricted material to scholar Kevin J. << Hansberry seemed to anticipate it all. /Annots 326 0 R /Type /Page 21 0 obj /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R When she was 8 years old, Hansberrys family deliberately attempted to move into a restricted neighborhood. [43] In her award-winning Hansberry biography Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, Imani Perry writes that in his "gorgeous" images, "Attie captured her intellectual confidence, armour, and remarkable beauty. In doing so, he blocked access to all materials related to Hansberry's lesbianism, meaning that no scholars or biographers had access for more than 50 years. endobj /Resources 565 0 R [16], Additionally, she wrote scripts at Freedom. /Annots 428 0 R [26][27][28], Hansberry was a closeted lesbian. >> >> endobj 83 0 obj >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] During the summer of 1949 she studied painting at the University of Guadalajara art workshop in Ajijic, Mexico and during the summer of 1950 she studied art at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. /Annots 242 0 R Lorraine Vivian Hansberry is born in Chicago on May 19, the daughter of a prominent real estate broker and the niece of a Howard University professor of African history. /Type /Page /Type /Page >> endobj Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965) was the first American playwright to create a realistic portrayal of African-American urban family life. /Resources 217 0 R << "[22], In 1952, Hansberry attended a peace conference in Montevideo, Uruguay, in place of Robeson, who had been denied travel rights by the State Department. >> /Annots 461 0 R << Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry Hardcover - April 20, 2021 by Soyica Diggs Colbert (Author) 49 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $12.82 Read with Our Free App Audiobook $0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover $13.49 24 Used from $2.91 11 New from $12.31 Paperback $18.00 2 Used from $24.36 17 New from $12.94 Audio CD /Type /Page /Annots 509 0 R Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. Best known for her plays, Hansberry was the first black woman to write a Broadway drama; A Raisin in the . /Type /Page /Length 55074 /Contents 537 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 60 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 223 0 R rumination on Hansberry's death, Ossie Davis (who succeeded Sidney Poitier in the role of Walter Lee) put it this way: The play deserved all thisthe playwright deserved all this, and more. In October, Lorraine Hansberry moved back into New York City as her new play, "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" began rehearsals. She. 137 0 obj /Annots 215 0 R [73], On September 18, 2018, the biography Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, written by scholar Imani Perry, was published by Beacon Press. << /Resources 430 0 R /Resources 583 0 R She is buried at Asbury United Methodist Church Cemetery in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Her civil rights work and writing career were cut short by her death from pancreatic cancer at age 34. /Annots 554 0 R She was the youngest of Nannie Perry Hansberry and Carl Augustus Hansberrys four children. /Annots 347 0 R /Parent 1 0 R To quote Simone de Beauvoir, an important influence, Hansberry could not think in terms of joy or despair but in terms of freedom. And she could not think of freedom as a destination but as a practice, full of intervals, regressions. /Parent 1 0 R endobj Carter, "Commitment amid Complexity" (1980), p. 41. /Contents 411 0 R << endobj [67] There is a school in the Bronx called Lorraine Hansberry Academy, and an elementary school in St. Albans, Queens, New York, named after Hansberry as well. /Type /Page Oh, what a lovely, precious dream. Free shipping for many products! (The notes, however, are splendid fluent, rich and full of a feeling of discovery; here she permits herself to speak more freely.) /Resources 319 0 R Its not incidental, I think, that these asides often have to do with desire. 47 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /Annots 359 0 R Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and nonviolent, she wrote. /Type /Page /Resources 613 0 R /Resources 307 0 R /Annots 542 0 R /Resources 373 0 R 9 0 obj Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] The final journal entries burn. /Annots 521 0 R /Type /Page /Annots 578 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page endobj /Contents 160 0 R She grew up on the south side of Chicago, a place rigidly segregated by race. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 576 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 620 0 R A proud family's quest for a better life meets conflicts that span three generations and set the stage for a Her grandniece is the actress Taye Hansberry. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] She is bestknown forwriting "A Raisin in the Sun," the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway. /Type /Page Lorraine Hansberry, child of a cultured, middle-class black family but early exposed to the poverty and discrimination suffered by most blacks in America, fought passionately against racism in her writings and throughout her life. 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Mumford, however, beyond reading homophile magazines and corresponding with their creators, "no evidence has surfaced" to support claims that Hansberry was directly involved in the movement for gay and lesbian civil equality. /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] The mythos of the first obscures so much of the communality of Hansberrys thinking. /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Annots 341 0 R The Hansberrys moved into the house on Rhodes Avenue in May 1937. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << 34K views 4 years ago Discover the life of Lorraine Hansberry, who reported on civil rights for Paul Robeson's newspaper Freedom and later penned "A Raisin in the Sun". 17 0 obj /Type /Page >> 147 0 obj endobj >> << /Type /Page << /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page << << << endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 141 0 obj /Annots 413 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R [8] She spent the summer of 1949 in Mexico, studying painting at the University of Guadalajara. endobj /Parent 1 0 R Despite a warm reception in Chicago, the show never made it to Broadway. /Annots 476 0 R Restrictive covenants, in which white property owners agreed not to sell to blacks, created a ghetto known as the Black Belt on Chicagos South Side. endobj endobj /Contents 462 0 R /Resources 598 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R [19], Like Robeson and many black civil rights activists, Hansberry understood the struggle against white supremacy to be interlinked with the program of the Communist Party. At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. /Contents 216 0 R "A Raisin in the Sun" opened on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre on March 11, 1959. Nannie, Lorraine's mother, stood watch with a gun. 94 0 obj /Contents 636 0 R << >> /Annots 284 0 R /Parent 1 0 R Du Bois. endobj Anyone can read what you share. Born in 1930, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was the youngest of Carl and Nannie Hansberry's four children. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 469 0 R /Annots 581 0 R >> /Annots 446 0 R 155 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R endobj At this time, she and her husband separated, but they continued to work together. endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 285 0 R /Type /Page /Pages 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. 144 0 obj [41] Over the next two years, Raisin was translated into 35 languages and was being performed all over the world. A Reader's Guide to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun - Pamela Loos 2008-01-01 Presents a critique and analysis of "A Raisin in the Sun," discussing the plot, themes, dramatic devices, and major characters in the play, and includes a brief overview of Hansberry's other works. Put off by the 'frantic dispatches about the "terrorists" and "witchcraft societies" in the colony' that preceded the December 1952 publication of her article, Hansberry criticized anti Mau Mau coverage that only 'distort[ed] the fight for freedom by the five million Masai, Wahamba, Kavirondo, and Kikuyu people who [made] up the African people of Kenya.'". /Annots 329 0 R One of her first reports covered the Sojourners for Truth and Justice convened in Washington, D.C., by Mary Church Terrell. /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 58 0 obj /Annots 224 0 R endobj /Type /Page [65], In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Hansberry in the biographical dictionary 100 Greatest African Americans.[66]. Her civil rights work and writing career were cut short by her death from pancreatic cancer at age 34. Watch the 2022 One Book, One Chicago keynote, Are you enjoying this season's One Book, One, Has this season of One Book, One Chicago and the, A Raisin in the Sun: One Book, One Chicago Spring 2003, Historical Context of A Raisin in the Sun, Background and Criticism of A Raisin in the Sun, Express Yourself: Creativity-Sparking Books, Wilkerson, Margaret B. >> These years taught Hansberry the necessity of fighting on all fronts. Though there were violent protests, they did not move out until a court ordered them to do so. In 2004, A Raisin in the Sun was revived on Broadway in a production starring Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Phylicia Rashad, and Audra McDonald, and directed by Kenny Leon. /Annots 335 0 R /Type /Page Lorraine graduated from Englewood High School in Chicago, where she first became interested in theater. >> The Interviews subseries, 1959-1963, n.d. (.2 lin. /Annots 278 0 R endobj Dr. J. Carl Gregg 2 February 2020 frederickuu.org For this rst Sunday of Black History Month, I would like to invite us to focus on the fascinating life of Lorraine Hansberry, who died in 1965 at the far too young age of thirty-four. /Contents 423 0 R 66 0 obj /Contents 291 0 R Lena's children, Walter and Beneatha, each have . >> >> /Resources 544 0 R endobj endobj 18 0 obj In the process of exploring the ideas that shaped Lorraine Hansberry's understanding of her art and the world, the volume confirms the writer's relevance during these troubled but potentially transformative times. /Annots 614 0 R >> /Contents 477 0 R /Resources 571 0 R /Type /Page >> /Parent 1 0 R << At the same time, she said, "some of the first people who have died so far in this struggle have been white men. /Parent 1 0 R >> endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 400 0 R Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] [51], The FBI began surveillance of Hansberry when she prepared to go to the Montevideo peace conference. /Resources 229 0 R /Annots 503 0 R She was the first Black playwright and youngest American to win a New York Critics Circle award. In 2018, a new American Masters documentary,"Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart," was released, by filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << /Annots 467 0 R Lorraine Hansberry was born at Provident Hospital on the South Side of Chicago on May 19, 1930. /Annots 392 0 R You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site. [56], In 1959, Hansberry commented that women who are "twice oppressed" may become "twice militant". /Annots 596 0 R /Type /Page Although the case did not argue that racially restrict covenants were unlawful, it marked the beginning of their end. /Type /Page /Resources 280 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R She had . /Parent 1 0 R [1] She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. [23], Hansberry died of pancreatic cancer[5][58] on January 12, 1965, aged 34. 15 0 obj endobj /Annots 635 0 R /Type /Page [40] She was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play, among the four Tony Awards that the play was nominated for in 1960. /Resources 427 0 R endobj /Annots 275 0 R Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers. /Contents 312 0 R /Type /Page (October/November 2012), ". /Resources 349 0 R God wrote it through me." /Resources 541 0 R /Annots 632 0 R When Hansberry was a child, she and her family lived in a Black neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. /CSpg /DeviceGray She ushered in a new era in theater history by becoming the first African-American writer and the youngest American playwright to receive the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for her play, A Raisin in the Sun (1959). /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 243 0 R Within two years, it was translated into 35 different languages and was performed all over the world. endobj Best Play Prize Won By a Negro Girl, 28, The New York Herald Tribune declared. >> 78 0 obj 129 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 508 0 R Both Hansberrys were active in the Chicago Republican Party. /Contents 309 0 R endobj Moving with her husband to Croton-on-Hudson, Lorraine Hansberry continued not only her writing but also her involvement with civil rights and other political protests. << Lorraine Hansberrythe iconic playwright and activist whose 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun is . To this Soyica Diggs Colbert, a professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts at Georgetown University, adds her contribution with Radical Vision, positioned as the first scholarly biography. /Contents 645 0 R /Resources 268 0 R 110 0 obj Lorraine Hansberry speech, "The Nation Needs Your Gifts", given to Reader's Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964. endobj Studies of Hansberry excavate her behind-the-scenes activism. /Type /Page /Type /Page Patricia and Fredrick McKissack wrote a children's biography of Hansberry, Young, Black, and Determined, in 1998. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 75 0 obj 159 0 obj /Type /Page << >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] endobj But I have a feeling that for all she got, Lorraine Hansberry never got all she deserved in regard to A Raisin in the Sunthat /Resources 331 0 R endobj She wrote under an alias, using her initials L.H., for fear of discrimination. /Contents 390 0 R She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. /Parent 1 0 R Perry's multi-dimensional, illuminating biography, Looking for Lorraine. Wilkins, "Beyond Bandung" (2006), p. 194: "It was common for the Hansberry household to host a range of African-American luminaries such as Paul Robeson, W. E. B. The Radiant & Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry The Rev. endobj The Glister - John Burnside 2010-02-09 << << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 603 0 R >> /Resources 559 0 R The family was threatened by a white mob, which threw a brick through a window, narrowly missing Lorraine. Open your heart to what I mean. /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R A Raisin in the Sun portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, a Black family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. /Parent 1 0 R The curtain rises on a dim, drab room. 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"No sooner had she joined Freedom, which had been founded by Paul Robeson as part of his tightening embrace of the Communist Party line in the increasingly frigid Cold War than she was serving as a participant-correspondent: she accompanied the 'Sojourners for Truth and Justice,' a group of 132 black women from 15 states which was convened in September 1951, in Washington by the long-time activist Mary Church Terrell 'to demand that the Federal Government protect the lives and liberties' of black Americans. The parallels to me have always felt too uncanny for it not to be homage. 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