The Second Sex
Hansberry was a critic of existentialism, which she considered too distant from the world's economic and geopolitical realities. 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 Nègres". However, Hansberry admired Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex".