Vol. 58, No. 1/2, SEPTEMBER/DECEMBER 2014 Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bir... Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" And the Advantages of a Pluralist Close Reading This is the ...

Inspired by the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem “Sympathy,” Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird” is a metaphorical ... These poems are essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the depth ...

The grandson of Maya Angelou is trying to wrest control of ... Johnson claims his son manipulated him into giving up control of Caged Bird Legacy, a company they created to manage Angelou's ...

A few months after her arrival, Angelou experienced an ordeal that she has never been able to forget -she writes about this in I Know why the Caged Bird Sings. After her mother's boyfriend raped ...

with a voice that… Maya Angelou, one of the most respected cultural figures of her generation, has died at the age of 86. Her debut memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” made her one of ...

American icon Maya Angelou was a celebrated ... records show that he watched the film version of Angelou’s autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings while in jail. When he was finally ...

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ... I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, about her childhood in the Deep South. She received dozens of honorary ...