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Casebooks in Criticism Ser.: Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings : A Casebook by Joanne M. Braxton (1998, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195116070
ISBN-139780195116076
eBay Product ID (ePID)999089
Product Key Features
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMaya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings : a Casebook
SubjectAmerican / African American
Publication Year1998
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorJoanne M. Braxton
SeriesCasebooks in Criticism Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.1 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN98-013295
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Could be easily enjoyed by scholars, students, and other interested readers... Such a series is timely and necessary, and illustrates the growing importance of ethnic American literature in education and society at large...Braxton's Casebook offers readers a valuable resource for studyingAngelou's text from a variety of perspectives." Rocky Mountain Review, "Could be easily enjoyed by scholars, students, and other interestedreaders... Such a series is timely and necessary, and illustrates the growingimportance of ethnic American literature in education and society atlarge...Braxton's Casebook offers readers a valuable resource for studyingAngelou's text from a variety of perspectives." Rocky Mountain Review, "Could be easily enjoyed by scholars, students, and other interested readers... Such a series is timely and necessary, and illustrates the growing importance of ethnic American literature in education and society at large...Braxton's Casebook offers readers a valuable resource for studying Angelou's text from a variety of perspectives." Rocky Mountain Review
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal818/.5409
Table Of ContentSymbolic Geography and Psychic Literature, A Conversation with Maya AngelouInitiation and Self-DiscoveryLearning to Live: When the Bird Breaks from the CageReembodying the Self: Representations of Rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsRacial Protest, Identity, Words, and FormPaths to EscapeDeath as Metaphor of SelfSinging the Black Mother: Maya Angelou and Autobiographical ContinuityMaya Angelou: An InterviewSelected Bibliography
SynopsisWith the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context andreception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fullerunderstanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray. Perhaps more than any other single text, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings helped to establish the "mainstream" status of the renaissance in black women's writing. This casebook presents a variety of critical approaches to this classic autobiography, along with an exclusive interview with Angelouconducted specially for this volume and a unique drawing of her childhood surroundings in Stamps, Arkansas, drawn by Angelou herself., With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray. Perhaps more than any other single text, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings helped to establish the "mainstream" status of the renaissance in black women's writing. This casebook presents a variety of critical approaches to this classic autobiography, along with an exclusive interview with Angelou conducted specially for this volume and a unique drawing of her childhood surroundings in Stamps, Arkansas, drawn by Angelou herself., Perhaps more than any other single text, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings helped to establish the audience and the 'mainstream' status of the renaissance in black women's writing and thus to pave the way for the future success of Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Sherley Anne Williams and perhaps even Toni Morrison. The Casebook promises to be a useful volume that will see wide use in the area where Angelou's first autobiography shows a continuing and flourishing readrship, especially Americn autobiography, African American literature, Women's readrship, especially American autobiography, African American literature, Women's Studies/Gender Studies and Cross-Cultural Studies. Along with Braxton's introduction and the Claudia Tate interview, the selected essays provide a range of critical approaches to the text.
LC Classification NumberPS3551.N464Z794 1998
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