I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on theNew York Timesbestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the peopleand the timesthat touched her life.

Maya Angelou has written five volumes of autobiography as well as many books of poetry. Dr. Angelou is currently Reynolds Professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Editor's Note	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Song of a Caged Bird: Maya Angelou's Quest After Self-Acceptance	p. 3
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Black Autobiographical Tradition	p. 15
Role-Playing as Art in Maya Angelou's """"Caged Bird""""	p. 25
Death as a Metaphor of Self in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	p. 31
The Daughter's Seduction: Sexual Violence and Literary History	p. 47
Call and Response: Intertextuality in Two Autobiographical Works by Richard Wright and Maya Angelou	p. 69
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Paths to Escape	p. 81
A Song of Transcendence: Maya Angelou	p. 93
Con Artists and Storytellers: Maya Angelou's Problematic Sense of Audience	p. 111
Someplace to Be a Black Girl	p. 141
Reembodying the Self: Representations of Rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	p. 153
Maya Angelou is Three Writers: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	p. 167
Learning to Live: When the Bird Breaks from the Cage	p. 173
Chronology	p. 181
Contributors	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 187
Acknowledgments	p. 189
Index	p. 191
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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