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Maya Angelou (/ ˈ æ n dʒ ə l oʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; [1] [2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning ...
Angelou reports that maintaining the distinction between herself and the Maya character is "damned difficult", but "very necessary". [1] Scholar Liliane Arensberg, in her discussion about the theme of death in Caged Bird , suggests that Angelou "retaliates for the tongue-tied child's helpless pain" by using her adult self's irony and wit. [ 67 ]
Angelou reports that maintaining the distinction between herself and "the Maya character" is "damned difficult", but "very necessary". [3] Scholar Liliane Arensberg suggests that Angelou "retaliates for the tongue-tied child's helpless pain" by using her adult's irony and wit. [ 4 ]
Angelou uses the metaphor of a bird struggling to escape its cage described in the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem "Sympathy" throughout all of her autobiographies; she uses the metaphor in the titles of both I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and her sixth autobiography A Song Flung Up to Heaven. [19]
Gather Together in My Name is a 1974 memoir by American writer and poet Maya Angelou.It is the second book in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies. Written three years after the publication of and beginning immediately following the events described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, it follows Angelou, called Rita, from the ages of 17 to 19.
Maya Angelou quotes about love “Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold, that’s ego. Love liberates.” ...
Oprah Winfrey has recalled how Maya Angelou’s book helped her cope with the sexual abuse she experienced during her childhood.. The 69-year-old TV host spoke candidly about the late poet’s ...
As critic Susan Gilbert states, Angelou reports not one person's story, but the collective's. [30] Lupton insists that all of Angelou's autobiographies conformed to the genre's standard structure: they were written by a single author, they were chronological, and they contained elements of character, technique, and theme. [ 31 ]