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In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."This simplified book includes an introduction and extensive activity material, like all Penguin Readers.
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I Know why the Caged Bird Sings, Jacqueline Kehl, Maya Angelou
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- Année de publication
- 2002
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Jacqueline Kehl, Maya Angelou
- Éditeur
- Pearson Education
- Publié
- 2002
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 0582505240
- ISBN13
- 9780582505247
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Poésie, Famille, Classiques, Autobiographies et mémoires, Journalisme littéraire, États-Unis, Littérature américaine, Cadeaux pour les dames, Société, Féminisme, Jeunes, Perte, Enfance, Viol, Sud des États-Unis, San Francisco, Arkansas
- Première publication
- 1969
- Titre original
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Évaluation
- 4,3 sur 5
- Description
- In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."This simplified book includes an introduction and extensive activity material, like all Penguin Readers.