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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an American television film based on the autobiography of the same name by Maya Angelou, first aired April 28, 1979, on CBS. Angelou and Leonora Thuna wrote the screenplay, and the movie was directed by Fielder Cook. Constance Good played the young Maya Angelou.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series , it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma .
Angelou's series of seven autobiographies focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim. She became a poet and writer after a string of odd jobs during her young adulthood.
The works of Maya Angelou encompass autobiography, plays, poetry, and teleplays.She also had an active directing, acting, and speaking career. She is best known for her books, including her series of seven autobiographies, starting with the critically acclaimed I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).
Caged Bird has been categorized as an autobiography, but Angelou utilizes fiction-writing techniques such as dialogue, thematic development, and characterization. [1] She uses the first-person narrative voice customary with autobiographies, but also includes fiction-like elements, told from the perspective of a child that is "artfully recreated ...
The song was most recently (2019) used in episode 1 of George Clooney's re-tooling of Catch 22 as a miniseries for Hulu, the U.S.-based subscription video on demand service. The Nat King Cole's version of the song was quoted by Maya Angelou in her bestseller I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979) (TV) I, Tina (1986), Tina Turner: What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) I Was Hitler Youth Salomon (German: Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon) (1990), Solomon Perel: Europa Europa (1990) I'll Cry Tomorrow (1954), Lillian Roth: I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.