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Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings. "Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved ...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is een autobiografie uit 1969 over de jonge jaren van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en dichter Maya Angelou. Het is het eerste deel uit een serie van zeven, waarin wilskracht en passie voor literatuur als rode draad zijn te herleiden als tegenwicht tegen een achtergrond van racisme en trauma .
Media Adaptations. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was made into a TV movie in 1979 starring Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Esther Rolle, Roger E. Mosely, Paul Benjamin, and Constance Good, directed by Fielder Cook. It is available from Knowledge Unlimited, Inc.
Prologue. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings tells the story of Maya Angelou’s childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. She and her brother Bailey are sent away from their parents on a train to live with their grandmother (“Momma”) and Uncle Willie when they are just three and four years old. Their grandmother owns a store, and the children enjoy a ...
Historical Context of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The book begins in the segregated American Jim Crow South of the early 20th century and ends in San Francisco, shortly after the end of WWII. This turbulent period in American history is insightfully catalogued and examined by Angelou as she recounts the events of her own life.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first of seven autobiographies about Maya Angelou's (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) life of extraordinary talent and extreme hardship as a Black girl in poor America. They are all stories of survival. Maya was called Marguerite ("Maya" was a nickname from her beloved brother). A free bird leaps
