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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by: ANGELOU, MAYA

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by: ANGELOU, MAYA

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0553279378
Edition: Revised
Format: Trade Book
Copyright: 08/01/1991
Publisher: Bantam
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A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on theNew York Timesbestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the peopleand the timesthat touched her life.

Editor's Note	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Song of a Caged Bird: Maya Angelou's Quest After Self-Acceptance	p. 3
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Black Autobiographical Tradition	p. 15
Role-Playing as Art in Maya Angelou's """"Caged Bird""""	p. 25
Death as a Metaphor of Self in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	p. 31
The Daughter's Seduction: Sexual Violence and Literary History	p. 47
Call and Response: Intertextuality in Two Autobiographical Works by Richard Wright and Maya Angelou	p. 69
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Paths to Escape	p. 81
A Song of Transcendence: Maya Angelou	p. 93
Con Artists and Storytellers: Maya Angelou's Problematic Sense of Audience	p. 111
Someplace to Be a Black Girl	p. 141
Reembodying the Self: Representations of Rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	p. 153
Maya Angelou is Three Writers: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	p. 167
Learning to Live: When the Bird Breaks from the Cage	p. 173
Chronology	p. 181
Contributors	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 187
Acknowledgments	p. 189
Index	p. 191
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