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Order out of chaos : the autobiographical works of Maya Angelou / Dolly A. McPherson.
LIBRA - Rare PS3551.N464 Z78 1991 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McPherson, Dolly Aimee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Angelou, Maya.
- African American authors--Biography--History and criticism.
- African American authors.
- Authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, American--Biography.
- African American women--Intellectual life--History.
- African American women.
- Order (Philosophy) in literature.
- African American women--Intellectual life.
- History.
- African American authors--Biography.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 176 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Virago Press, 1991.
- Contents:
- Autobiography as an Evocation of the Spirit
- Initiation and Self-Discovery
- The Contradictory and Imaginative Selves
- The Adult Self in Bloom
- Redefining the Self Through Place and Culture
- The Significance of Maya Angelou in Black Autobiographical Tradition
- An Addendum: A Conversation with Maya Angelou.
- Notes:
- Originally published in hardcover by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York, 1990
- Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.
- "Cover illustration by Pete Nevin."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-176).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 1853812137
- 9781853812132
- OCLC:
- 877219372
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