A study of the autobiographical writing of Maya Angelou is significant. A study of the autobiographical writing of Maya Angelou is significant not only because it offers insights into personal and group experience in America, but also because it has created a unique place within Black autobiographical tradition.

With this acknowledgement of Maya Angelou's unique achievement, Dolly McPherson reveals her place within the Black autobiographical tradition. With fascinating insights into Maya Angelou's life and creativity, and a shrewd examination of her techniques and recurring themes, Dolly McPherson provides us with a picture of this extraordinary woman's life and a reading of these rich autobiographical writings.

The works of Maya Angelou encompass autobiography, plays, poetic, and television .

The works of Maya Angelou encompass autobiography, plays, poetic, and television producer. She also had an active directing, acting, and speaking career. She is best known for her books, including her series of seven autobiographies, starting with the critically acclaimed I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

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by McPherson, Dolly Paperback. by McPherson, Dolly Paperback. With fascinating insights into Maya Angelou's life and creativity and an examination of her recurring themes and techniques this excellent study provides 'a fresh and unusual insight into the author and her method' Jessica Mitford.

Studies in African and Afro-American Culture. ISBN: 978-0-8204-1139-2. Availability: Out of print.

She was a Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest . Maya Angelou was best known for her writing of serial autobiography and poetry.

She was a Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University. Angelou’s extraordinary career shifted over the years from performing to writing.

It explores how two memory communities –Muslims and African Americans–successfully resisted objectionable corporate sports shoe products by playing memory games

It explores how two memory communities –Muslims and African Americans–successfully resisted objectionable corporate sports shoe products by playing memory games the heels of its sneakers, while African Americans accused Adidas of affixing shackles, a symbol of slavery, into its sneakers.

Singing the Black Mother: Maya Angelou and Autobiographical Continuity. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing. O’Neale, Sondra (1984). Reprinted from Black American Literature Forum 2., 257–276. Joanne M. Braxton, ed. Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Casebook. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 129–148. Reconstruction of the Composite Self: New Images of Black Women in Maya Angelou’s Continuing Autobiography. Mari Evans, ed. Black Women Writers (1950–1980): A Critical Evaluation.

Maya Angelou was an African American writer most famous for her . Angelou also published three books of essays and several books of poetry

Maya Angelou was an African American writer most famous for her poems and series of autobiographies. She had a difficult childhood and had to struggle as a teenage mother before she achieved moderate success as a performer. Know about the family, life, relationships, career and death of Maya Angelou through these 10 interesting facts. Angelou also published three books of essays and several books of poetry. Apart from being a writer, she was also an actor, director and producer of plays, movies and television programs.