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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151702503321

Titolo

Maya Angelou / / editor, Mildred R. Mickle, Penn State Greater Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salem Press

Ipswich, Massachusetts : , : Salem Press

Amenia, NY : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2016]

�2016

ISBN

1-68217-113-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 295 pages)

Collana

Critical insights

Gale eBooks

Critical Insights

Disciplina

818/.5409

Soggetti

African American women poets - History and criticism

African Americans in literature

Autobiography - African American authors - History and criticism

American poetryAfrican American women authors.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Author. On Maya Angelou / Mildred R. Mickle -- Biographical sketch: Maya Angelou / Mildred R. Mickle. Critical Contexts. Formalist criticism and the artistic merits of Maya Angelou's poetry / Robert C. Evans -- Literature review of the secondary sources on Maya Angelou's life and work / Martin Kich -- Spirituals and blues enclosed: a comparative analysis of Black folk forms in the poetry of Maya Angelou, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes / Mildred R. Mickle -- The censorship of Maya Angelou's work / Martin Kich. Critical Readings: Angelou's Prose. Paradoxical phrasing in the later autobiographies of Maya Angelou / Robert C. Evans -- Humor in the autobiographical writings of Maya Angelou: Maya meets Mr. Julian / Jason Shifferd -- Maya Angelou and Zora Neale Hurston as authors of autobiographies / Sarah Fredericks -- Angelou on Angelou: a survey of opinions



expressed in interviews and conversations before 1989 / Christina M. Garner -- Further conversations with Maya Angelou: a survey of interviews from 1990 to 2014 / Kelley Jeans -- Ethos, Logos, and Pathos in Maya Angelou's essays / Stephen Paul Bray -- The rust on the razor that threatens the throat: Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Claudine Raynaud. Critical Readings: Angelou's Poetry. On the pulse of peace: Maya Angelou, a nation's poet / Tomeiko Ashford Carter -- The "Sea Never Dry": the theme of Africa in select poetry by Maya Angelou / Mildred R. Mickle -- Gender and the poetic ingenuity in the poems of Maya Angelou / Robert C. Evans.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume profiles one of the most prolific African American voices of the 20th century, highlighting her most famous work, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.