Maya Angelou : adventurous spirit : from I know why the caged bird sings (1970) to Rainbow in the cloud, The wisdom and spirit of Maya Angelou (2014) / Linda Wagner-Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner-Martin, Linda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Angelou, Maya.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Criticism and interpretation.

Civil rights workers--Biography.

Civil rights workers.

African American authors--Biography.

African American authors.

Angelou, Maya--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 283 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised and updated edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Summary:

"A wide-ranging critical and biographical reading of Maya Angelou's life and work, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) to His Day Is Done, A Nelson Mandela Tribute (2014). Now fully revised and updated and featuring two new chapters covering Angelou's final years"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Marguerite Annie Johnson, April 4, 1928

2. Ambivalence is not so easy

3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

4. Gather Together in My Name

5. Music, poetry, and being alive

6. Singin and Swingin and Gettin Merry Like Christmas

7. The Heart of a Woman

8. Africa

9. A Song Flung Up to Heaven

10. Poems and the public spotlight

11. From autobiography to the essay

12. Maya Angelou as spirit leader

13. "Given to grace notes": Words as music in Maya Angelou's writing

14. The last years.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501365584

1501365584

9781501365577

1501365576

OCLC:

1159608511