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MAYA ANGELOU'S I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
A CASEBOOK |
| By: |
Joanne M. Braxton (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£63.00 |
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£55.13 |
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£7.87 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195116070 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195116076 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 1998 |
| Series: |
Casebooks in Criticism |
| Pages: |
172 |
| Description: |
Perhaps more than any other single text, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings helped to establish the audience and the 'mainstream' status of the renaissance in black women's writing and thus to pave the way for the future success of Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Sherley Anne Williams and perhaps even Toni Morrison. The Casebook promises to be a useful volume that will see wide use in the area where Angelou's first autobiography shows a continuingand flourishing readrship, especially Americn autobiography, African American literature, Women's readrship, especially American autobiography, African American literature, Women's Studies/Gender Studies and Cross-Cultural Studies. Along with Braxton's introduction and the Claudia Tate interview, the selectedessays provide a range of critical approaches to the text. |
| Synopsis: |
With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray. Perhaps more than any other single text, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings helped to establish the "mainstream" status of the renaissance in black women's writing.This casebook presents a variety of critical approaches to this classic autobiography, along with an exclusive interview with Angelou conducted specially for this volume and a unique drawing of her childhood surroundings in Stamps, Arkansas, drawn by Angelou herself. |
| Illustrations: |
1 line illustration |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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