Summary Of Cheryl A Wall By Maya Angelou

Wall, Cheryl A. “Maya Angelou: Toward a Criticism Worthy of Its Subject.” CLA Journal, vol. 58, no. 1/2, 2014, pp. 1–9. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44326215.

Cheryl A. Wall is a literary critic and professor of English at Rutgers University. She mainly critiques works made by black women. This is article is intended for other critics and high school students. In this article, Wall explains the background of Maya Angelou. This information is needed for the basic foundation of this research paper. Maya Angelou is a black woman that explored many places before she found her home in Ghana. She was a successful woman being capable of many things. She was a dancer, singer, actor, madam, waitress, cook, journalist, and activist. She collaborated

Neubauer, she is a scholar and writes critic that interviewed Maya Angelou. This is intended for the public to see. In this interview, Neubauer asks Maya Angelou some questions about her writing style and technique. Angelou’s response is that she is inspired by other activists such as MLK, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass and more. She says that she loved the writing style of Douglass’ slave narrative and slave narratives as a whole. Furthermore, she goes on about trying to create her own voice. One that speaks through her childhood rather than a person speaking about the past. This is somewhat similar to Wall’s work due to the fact that they both deal with outside influence of other

This journal of different Black studies and research concerning the issues of the Afro-American society. This interview is intended for the public, as well. In this interview, Maya Angelou explains her reasons for beginning to jump into the artistic society. She enjoys life and wants to express her feelings and thoughts into her artwork. She loves to be happy and has known from the early years of her life that she wanted to become an artist. She also explains that for people that want to be successful, they can become doctors or other higher paid jobs, but becoming an artist is known through your personality and outlook, which led her to the spot she was in. Additionally, she shows her talents and love for writing by explaining that she made multiple works in just a couple of years when other writers wait to finish a work in 5 years. This is useful for the paper because this explains her philosophy on writing and her reasoning for