Biography & Memoir· United States
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya AngelouAggregate Editorial Score39/100
ALA Notable Books
Published 1969281 pagesEnglish
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Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) stands as one of the most significant works of biography & memoir of its era. Angelou's memoir of her childhood in the American South—her traumatic silencing after rape, her love for her brother Bailey, and her awakening into language and self—is one of the great American coming-of-age stories. Themes of race, childhood, trauma run through the work. The book has received recognition from ALA Notable Books 1969.
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196910
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