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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover. 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again' Maya Angelou

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818.5409 ANG i

Publisher

London : Virago Press., 1984

Collation

281 p. ; 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780860685111

Classification

818.5409 ANG i

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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
Authors, American - 20th century - Biography.
Angelou, Maya - Biography
Angelou, Maya, 1928-
Entertainers - United States - Biography.
Authors, American - 20th century - Biography
African Americans - Civil rights
African Americans - Social conditions.
United States - Race relations.

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by Maya Angelou

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