Critical Insights: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2009

ISBN13

9781587656255

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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TBD

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Women's History Collection on Gale eBooks for Middle and High School Students
Overview

The original essays examine this work from several perspectives. One essay discusses the historical events that surround Angelou's life: the civil rights, black power, and black arts movements. Another essay discusses the struggle for black identity through readings of both Caged Bird and James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
The Book and Author.
1: On I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
2: Biography of Maya Angelou.
3: The Paris Review Perspective.
Critical Contexts.
4: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: African American Literary Tradition and the Civil Rights Era.
5: The Critical Reception of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
6: The Matter of Identity in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk.
7: “The Only Teacher I Remembered”: Schools, Schooling, and Education in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Critical Readings.
8: Death as Metaphor of Self in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
9: Breaking the Silence: Symbolic Violence and the Teaching of Contemporary “Ethnic” Autobiography.
10: Reembodying the Self: Representations of Rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
11: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: “Childhood Revisited”.
12: Racial Protest, Identity, Words, and Form.
13: “What You Looking at Me For? I Didn't Come to Stay”: Displacement, Disruption, and Black Female Subjectivity in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
14: Role-Playing as Art in Maya Angelou's Caged Bird.
15: Singin' de Blues, Writing Black Female Survival in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
16: A Discursive Trifecta: Community, Education, and Language in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
17: Maya Angelou's Caged Bird as Trauma Narrative.
Resources.
18: Chronology of Maya Angelou's Life.
19: Works by Maya Angelou.
20: Bibliography.
Critical Insights.
About the Editor.
About The Paris Review.
Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
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