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Maya Angelou : adventurous spirit / Linda Wagner-Martin.

By: Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015Description: xvi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781501307850 (hardback)
  • 9781501307843 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818/.5409 B 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3551.N464 Z96 2015
Other classification:
  • LIT000000 | LIT004020 | LIT004290
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- PrefaceChapter One: Marguerite Annie Johnson, April 4, 1928 -- Chapter Two: Ambivalence Is Not So Easy -- Chapter Three: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Chapter Four: Gather Together in My Name -- Chapter Five: Singin' and Swingin' and Getting' Merry Like Christmas -- Chapter Six: The Heart of a Woman -- Chapter Seven: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes -- Chapter Eight: Africa -- Chapter Nine: Maya Angelou as Public Intellectual -- Chapter Ten: Poems and the Public Spotlight -- Chapter Eleven: A Song Flung Up to Heaven -- Chapter Twelve: Essays (Even the Stars through Letter to My Daughter) -- Chapter Thirteen: The OeuvrePrimary and Secondary Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "A comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Linda Wagner-Martin covers all six of Angelou's autobiographies, as well as her essay and poetry collections, while also exploring Angelou's life as an African American in the United States, her career as stage and film performer, her thoughtful participation in the Civil Rights actions of the 1960s, and her travels abroad in Egypt, Africa, and Europe. In her discussion of Angelou's methods of writing her stunning autobiography, which began with the 1970 publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Wagner-Martin writes about the influences of the Harlem Writers Group (led by James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and John O. Killens) as well as Angelou's significant friendships with Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders from both international and African American United States cultures. Crucial concepts throughout include the role of oral traditions, of song and dance, of the spiritualism of art based on religious belief, of Angelou's voiced rhythms and her polished use of dialogue to convey more abstract "meaning." Wagner-Martin shows that, viewing herself as a global citizen, Angelou never lost her spirit of adventure and discovery as well as her ability to overcome"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "A comprehensive critical and biographical reading of Maya Angelou's life and work, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) to His Day Is Done, A Nelson Mandela Tribute (2014)"-- Provided by publisher.
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PS3551 .N464 Z467 1974 Gather together in my name. PS3551 .N464 Z7578 1998 Maya Angelou : a critical companion / PS3551 .N464 Z835 2008 Racism in Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings / PS3551 .N464 Z96 2015 Maya Angelou : adventurous spirit / PS3551 .N645 R58 1998 River angel / PS3551 .P56 Z47 1994 Roommates : my grandfather's story / PS3551 .R455 N49 2007 Next life /

"A comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Linda Wagner-Martin covers all six of Angelou's autobiographies, as well as her essay and poetry collections, while also exploring Angelou's life as an African American in the United States, her career as stage and film performer, her thoughtful participation in the Civil Rights actions of the 1960s, and her travels abroad in Egypt, Africa, and Europe. In her discussion of Angelou's methods of writing her stunning autobiography, which began with the 1970 publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Wagner-Martin writes about the influences of the Harlem Writers Group (led by James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and John O. Killens) as well as Angelou's significant friendships with Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders from both international and African American United States cultures. Crucial concepts throughout include the role of oral traditions, of song and dance, of the spiritualism of art based on religious belief, of Angelou's voiced rhythms and her polished use of dialogue to convey more abstract "meaning." Wagner-Martin shows that, viewing herself as a global citizen, Angelou never lost her spirit of adventure and discovery as well as her ability to overcome"-- Provided by publisher.

"A comprehensive critical and biographical reading of Maya Angelou's life and work, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) to His Day Is Done, A Nelson Mandela Tribute (2014)"-- Provided by publisher.

Machine generated contents note: -- PrefaceChapter One: Marguerite Annie Johnson, April 4, 1928 -- Chapter Two: Ambivalence Is Not So Easy -- Chapter Three: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Chapter Four: Gather Together in My Name -- Chapter Five: Singin' and Swingin' and Getting' Merry Like Christmas -- Chapter Six: The Heart of a Woman -- Chapter Seven: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes -- Chapter Eight: Africa -- Chapter Nine: Maya Angelou as Public Intellectual -- Chapter Ten: Poems and the Public Spotlight -- Chapter Eleven: A Song Flung Up to Heaven -- Chapter Twelve: Essays (Even the Stars through Letter to My Daughter) -- Chapter Thirteen: The OeuvrePrimary and Secondary Bibliography -- Index.

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