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Caged Bird has been categorized as an autobiography, but Angelou utilizes fiction-writing techniques such as dialogue, thematic development, and characterization. [1] She uses the first-person narrative voice customary with autobiographies, but also includes fiction-like elements, told from the perspective of a child that is "artfully recreated ...
The caged bird metaphor also invokes the "supposed contradiction of the bird singing in the midst of its struggle". [124] Scholar Ernece B. Kelley calls Caged Bird a "gentle indictment of white American womanhood"; [ 128 ] Hagen expands it further, stating that the book is "a dismaying story of white dominance". [ 128 ]
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an American television film based on the autobiography of the same name by Maya Angelou, first aired April 28, 1979, on CBS. Angelou and Leonora Thuna wrote the screenplay, and the movie was directed by Fielder Cook. Constance Good played the young Maya Angelou.
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Gather Together in My Name is a 1974 memoir by American writer and poet Maya Angelou.It is the second book in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies. Written three years after the publication of and beginning immediately following the events described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, it follows Angelou, called Rita, from the ages of 17 to 19.
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This hilarious bird is a huge fan of the 21st night of September. ... Parrot Can't Stop and Won't Stop Singing Earth, Wind and Fire. Eve Vawter. March 11, 2024 at 2:15 PM.
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing is Maya Angelou's fourth volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.