“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
2014
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Maya Angelou | MA
gave a starring role to her mother, Vivian Baxter
, in Mom & Me & Mom, an episodic collection of anecdotes and aphorisms. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. 2014 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maya Angelou | MA
's mother, Vivian Baxter
, worked as a nurse, professional gambler, bar owner and entertainer. Innes, Lyn. “Maya Angelou Obituary”. The Guardian. |
Textual Production | Maya Angelou | The events that led up to this book were the devastating murder of Martin Luther King
and the success of MA
's tv series Black, Blues, Black. Then an editor at Random House
suggested... |
Textual Features | Maya Angelou | In the title-poem MA
speaks for her race, or for all the wretched of the earth. It opens: You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies, / You may tread... |
Dedications | Maya Angelou | Having no biological daughter, MA
addressed this book to some women who mothered me through dark and bright days beginning with her biological grandmother
and mother
, one woman who allows me to be a... |
Dedications | Maya Angelou | The dedication thanks Vivian Baxter
, who generously taught me how to be a mother, allowing me to dedicate this book to one of the most courageous and generous men I know, my son, Guy Bailey Johnson |
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