I know why the caged bird sings

Resource Information

The work I know why the caged bird sings represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

I know why the caged bird sings

Creator

• Angelou, Maya

Subject

• African American women authors -- 20th century -- Biography
• Angelou, Maya -- Childhood and youth
• Autobiography: general
• Autobiography: literary
• Biography
• Biography & non-fiction prose
• Biography: general
• African American authors -- 20th century -- Biography
• Gender studies: women & girls
• Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
• Literary studies: poetry & poets
• Southern States -- Race relations
• Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
• United States of America, USA
• Biography: literary

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

In this, the first volume of her autobiography, writer and poet Maya Angelou reflects on her childhood spent growing up in the American South of the 1930s. There she learned the power of the white townsfolk and suffered the trauma of rape.

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 973.0496073092
• 973'.0496'073'092
• 973'.0496'073'092
• 920 ANGELOU
• 920 ANG
• 305.896073
• B ANG
• 920 ANGE

Index

no index present

Interest level

UY

LC call number

E835

Literary form

non fiction

Reading level

6.7

Study program name

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning

Summary expansion

Now the basis of a major Radio 4 drama, Maya Angelou's debut memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (Barack Obama)Maya Angelou's debut memoir has become an classic beloved worldwide. Her six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the her talents and resilience.. 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. However, far from being dispiriting, James Baldwin writes, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.''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