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| Named Person: | Maya Angelou; Maya Angelou |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harold Bloom |
| ISBN: | 0791047733 9780791047736 |
| OCLC Number: | 38199649 |
| Description: | viii, 197 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The song of a caged bird : Maya Angelou's quest after self-acceptance / Sidonie Ann Smith -- Mary Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings and black autobiographical tradition / George E. Kent -- Role-playing as art in Maya Angelou's Caged bird / Myra K. McMurry -- Death as metaphor of self in I know why the caged bird sings / Liliane K. Arensberg -- The daughter's seduction : sexual violence and literary history / Christine Froula -- Call and response : intertextuality in two autobiographical works by Richard Wright and Maya Angelou / Kenneth Kinnamon -- Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings : paths to escape / Susan Gilbert -- A song of transcendence : Maya Angelou / Joanne M. Braxton -- Con artists and storytellers : Maya Angelou's problematic sense of audience / Francoise Lionnet -- Someplace to be a black girl / Fred Lee Hord -- Reembodying the self : representations of rape in Incidents in the life of a slave girl and I know why the caged bird sings / Mary Vermillion -- Maya Angelou is three writers : I know why the caged bird sings / James Bertolino -- Learning to live : when the bird breaks from the cage / Opal Moore. |
| Series Title: | Modern critical interpretations. |
| Other Titles: | I know why the caged bird sings |
| Responsibility: | edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. |
Abstract:
Presents critical essays on Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.
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