I know why the caged bird sings
Angelou, Maya2007
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In this, the first volume of her autobiography, writer and poet Maya Angelou reflects on her childhood spent growing up in the American South of the 1930s. There she learned the power of the white townsfolk and suffered the trauma of rape.
Main title:
I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou.
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Imprint:
London : Virago, 1984.
Collation:
309 pages. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Random House, 1969.Author, Maya Angelou.Volume I of autobiography.
ISBN:
9780860685111 (pbk)
Language:
English
Subject:
African American women authors -- 20th century -- BiographyAfrican American authors -- 20th century -- BiographyAfro-American women authors -- 20th century -- BiographyAfro-American authors -- 20th century -- BiographySouthern States -- Race relationsSouthern States -- Social conditions -- 1945-Biography
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Maya Angelou20th centuryAmerican literatureBiographiesBiographiesHigher EnglishRacism
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