Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series, 1995.
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Education | Maya Angelou | Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series, 1995. 12 |
politics | Maya Angelou | After a commemorative event at Carnegie Hall to mark the centenary of the birth of W. E. B. Du Bois
(which MA
attended with the Baldwin family to hear Pete Seeger
sing and James Baldwin |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | As in other texts, Rich's concerns here are significantly though not exclusively feminist. The first poem in the book, Orion, addresses the well-known hunter constellation as my fierce half-brother: he burns for all... |
Textual Production | Maya Angelou | When MA
, in Cairo as an African wife, desperately needed to make money, she was offered a job through the good offices of David Du Bois
, an African-American journalist working locally (son of... |
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