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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

English · Paperback

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Zusatztext She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate Informationen zum Autor Maya Angelou Klappentext Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. 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 five books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the Amercian 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. 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 Zusammenfassung One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling seven-volume autobiography

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Authors Maya Angelou
Publisher Virago Press Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 26.01.1984
 
EAN 9780860685111
ISBN 978-0-86068-511-1
No. of pages 320
Dimensions 126 mm x 196 mm x 28 mm
Subjects Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Prose: non-fiction, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: literary, Biography and non-fiction prose, Autobiography: writers, Biography: writers

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