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Annotated Bibliography On Maya Angelou

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Katrina Kim
Ms. Collins
American Literature (Period 3)
9 March 2015
Maya Angelou's Bibliography
Introduction
Hip-hop artists such as Nicki Minaj and Kanye West’s musics were influenced by Maya Angelou’s poetries. Maya Angelou was an influential American author, dancer, poet, singer and also an actress. Her works explored the themes of economic, racial, and sexual oppression.
She was born in Louis, Missouri in 1928. At the age of three, the divorce of her parents made her and her brother, Bailey, to move to Stamps where their grandmother lived. While living in Stamps, Angelou experienced some racial discrimination as it was allowed in the South America during that time. However, she did a good job maintaining her customary African American …show more content…

Angelou is most remembered for her memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first autobiographical work which was significant in the history of literary world and gained …show more content…

The article “The Language of Maya Angelou” by Anne Charity Hudley explains how a black woman found her voice. and how Angelou began her journey in mastering different linguistic styles. Though, She had not attended a College, “she had a gift of the word that was highly praised by many Honoree degrees and the legacy in the nation” (Anne, par 2). The language used in her work presented the cultural and social worlds in which she navigated as a black poet having access to standardized English. In a CNN article in 1996, Angelou stated that having access to significant multiplicities of English was very crucial and a powerful social tool. In this way, the language she used in her writing was attractive making her work famous among many people. The second source is the article “Maya Angelou: Voice of Our Time” by the Success Magazine in 2011. According to this article, the “Go Get It” slogan which was a form of self-help that encouraged Angelou in every step of her life. She had some mentors such teachers and family like Mrs. Bertha, who motivated her to speak repeatedly introducing her to books. All these contributed to the success of Maya in

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This literacy source is a collection of Maya Angelou’s autobiographies and contains five different parts: Gather Together in My Name, Singin’ and Swinging’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas, The Heart of a Woman, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, and A Song Flung Up to Heaven. By looking at this work, one is able to witness Maya Angelou grow up in a racist society. Accordingly, Angelou focuses on what it was like being African-American in the 1900s; a time when Whites refused to accept that African-Americans were free. As specified by Angelou, “If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat” (9).

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Growing up in the 1930s as an African American was not a walk in the park. Angelou had to

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Maya Angelou was a strong African-American women who made an influential impact on the Civil Rights Movement, in bother her actions, and her literature. Her life experiences and courage helped others, and made her work influential. During Maya’s early life, she experienced many hardships that shaped her into the person many remember her as. Born on April 4, 1928, she only lived in St. Louis, MO for three years before her parents got divorced, and Maya, along with her mother and brother, moved in with her grandparents in Arkansas. At the age of eight, raped by her mother’s boyfriend, Maya learned the power that words possess.

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In “The Problem We All Live With” by This American Life, Mah’Ria Pruitt-Martin’s experiences as a black during the 2000s was very similar to Angelou’s experiences. Angelou went to Lafayette Country Training School, which was the black school. Pruitt-Martin went to Normandy, which was the worst district in the area. She was trying to transfer to a better school. Both Maya Angelou and Mah’Ria Pruitt-Martin had bad high school experiences because their schools had little resources for education and people didn’t

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Maya Angelous’s writing in the autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” got the attention of her readers from one chapter of her book, Champion or the World. Maya was giving her account of a life in a town filled with judgmental people at a time when the struggle of being respected as a human being was a fact of all matters concerning her family. History was being made when there was no equality or unity among race. Her writing style and technique was different because it was full of metaphoric language she used symbolism in creative ways that can be confusing. A lot was fiction so I’m still studying her writing style because she defiantly uses more than one at a time.

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Born Marguerite Annie Johnson in 1928, Maya Angelou had a very brutal upbringing. She encountered firsthand racial prejudice and discrimination from a very young age, as well as being taken advantage of sexually. While visiting her mother when she was seven years old, she was “raped by her mother’s boyfriend.” Angelou’s uncle murdered her mother’s boyfriend as vengeance for the crime. This was all so traumatizing for Angelou that she “spent years as a virtual mute” (“Maya Angelou”).

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Maya Angelou worked as a professor at Wake Forest University, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, from 1991 to 2014. As an African American women, one whose life was full of racial discrimination and gender inequality, she had plenty of experience and wisdom to share with her students. During her time working at the university, she taught a variety of humanities courses such as “World Poetry in Dramatic Performance,” “Race, Politics and Literature,” “African Culture and Impact on U.S.,” and “Race in the Southern Experience” (Wake Forest University,

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The Embodiment of Poetry "Maya Angelou was born as Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri"("Maya Angelou Biography" 1). " Maya and her brother, Bailey, moved to Stamp, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother after their parents divorced." "While living in Stamps, she faced racial discrimination that was the legally enforced way of life in the South, but she also absorbed the deep religious faith and old fashioned courtesy of traditional African American life." "Her brother, Bailey was unable to pronounce her name as a young child so he called her "My" as in "My sister."

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Maya Angelou, born fourth of April 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, was an Afro-American author, poet, dancer, singer, actress, and most importantly a civil rights activist and a feminist. Angelou was very much aware of the discrimination she faced in the society because of her race and sex. Nevertheless, she was a proud woman and that confidence showed through not only her work but in everything, she did. Angelou reached international recognition in 1969 when she posted her memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, the first non-fiction best seller by an African-American woman. Moreover, in 1971 she published the collection “Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Die” which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

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Maya Angelou and Alice walker are two women that contributed to The Civil Rights Act by using family, friends, their personal stories to make a difference. These two women wrote about different things that impacted their lives. Maya Angelou wrote about her and her families experiences as opposed to Alice Walker who wrote about her political views about segregation and women 's rights. They both have things in common as well such as their contribution to the The Civil Rights Act in the 1960s and they are both recipients of the Pulitzer Prizer. Alice walker and Maya Angelou both wrote about the experiences they have encountered being an African American woman.

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Initially named Marguerite Annie Johnson, Maya Angelou, the daughter of Vivian and Bailey Johnson, was born in 1928. From the ages of three to seven, Maya Angelou grew up with her grandmother, a great role model whom she admired for her strength, integrity, and faith and whom she wrote about in later life. When she returned to her mother in Missouri as a seven-year-old, her mother’s boyfriend raped her. The court found the man guilty, but strangely released him resulting in his murder by Angelou’s uncles soon after, which Maya Angelou felt responsible for, having supported his release by lying at his trial. Maya Angelou proceeded not to speak for the next five years in fear that others might die.

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Angelou was very socialising, she knew and was also known very well by the prominent people of the world. She has gone through a lot of rough times in her period of time! ‘Caged bird’ is a poem that shows slavery in the USA. The poem was written in 1983. It shows the differences between the black race and white race.

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Maya’s innocence showed how as a young age nothing could be understood as to why she could not fight back and stand up for her family. “I was as clearly imprisoned behind the scene as the actors outside were confined to their roles” (Angelou,18). Her grandmother’s wise words after this event led her to become the women she is today. By reminding Maya to always have respect for all her elders, no matter what color, helped shaped Maya Angelou into the most influential world leaders for African Americans.

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Angelou was, “Born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1928 abandoned by both her parents when they divorced ” (Ramey 1). Since her parents got a divorce when she was a baby, this could be one more reason to believe in heaven and God. She grow up in the 1930s, and as an adult, “She has been at various times in her life a streetcar conductor, Creole cook, madam, prostitute, junkie, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist” (Ramey 1). Being well rounded like this inspired her to write poems like “Preacher, Don’t Send Me”. Angelou experience in the south was racially divided for example she explains, “ the racial separation of the town, and the innumerable incidents of denigration which made life in the south an abomination against God and man” (Cudjoe 28).

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Maya Angelou was born in 1928; she lived through some of the worst oppression for African American people. One of Maya Angelou’s most celebrated poems is ‘Still I Rise”. The Poem “Still I Rise” is a call for others to live above the society in which they were conduct up. Throughout the poem Maya conveys her sense of confidence. No matter what happens or what is thrown at Maya Angelou, she will always rise.

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