I know why the caged bird sings, by Maya Angelou - Mickle, Mildred R. (Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2010)
On I know why the caged bird sings / Mildred R. Mickle -- Biography of Maya Angelou / Judith Barton Williamson -- The Paris review perspective / Christopher Cox -- I know why the caged bird sings : African American literary tradition and the civil rights era / Amy Sickels -- The critical reception of I know why the caged bird sings / Pamela Loos -- The matter of identity in Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings and James Baldwin's If Beale Street could talk / Neil Heims -- "The only teacher I remembered" : school, schooling, and education in Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings / Robert C. Evans -- Death as metaphor of self in I know why the caged bird sings / LIliane K. Arensberg -- Breaking the slience : symbolic violence and the teaching of contemporary "ethnic" autobiography / Martin A. Danahay -- Reembodying the self : respresentations of rape in Incidents in the life of a slave girl and I know why the caged bird sings / Mary Vermillion -- I know why the caged bird sings : "childhood revisited" / Lyman B. Hagen -- Racial protest, identity, words, and form / Pierre A. Walker -- "What you looking at me for? I didn't come to stay" : displacement, disruption, and black female subjectivity in Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings / Yolanda M. Manora -- Role-playing as art in Maya Angelou's Caged bird / Myra K. McMurry -- Singin' de blues, writing black female survival in I know why the caged bird sings / Cheron A. Barnwell -- A discursive trifecta : community, education, and language in I know why the caged bird sings / Clarence Nero -- Maya Angelou's Caged bird as trauma narrative / Suzette A. Henke.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Angelou, Maya; African Americans in literature; Racism in literature; Southern States -- In literature; I know why the caged bird sings