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Maya Angelou (Revised and Updated Edition): Adventurous Spirit
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by Linda Wagner-Martin
Linda Wagner-Martin
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Maya Angelou (Revised and Updated Edition): Adventurous Spirit
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by Linda Wagner-Martin
Linda Wagner-Martin
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A revised and updated edition of a comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Linda Wagner-Martin covers all six of Angelou's autobiographies, as well as her essay and poetry collections, whilst also exploring Angelou's life as an African American in the United States, her career as stage and film performer, her thoughtful participation in the Civil Rights actions of the 1960s, and her travels abroad in Egypt, Africa, and Europe.
In her discussion of Angelou's methods of writing her stunning autobiography, which began with the 1970 publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Wagner-Martin writes about the influences of the Harlem Writers Group (led by James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and John O. Killens) as well as Angelou's significant friendships with Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders from both international and African American United States cultures. Crucial concepts throughout include the role of oral traditions, of song and dance, of the spiritualism of art based on religious belief, of Angelou's voiced rhythms and her polished use of dialogue to convey more abstract “meaning.” Wagner-Martin shows that, viewing herself as a global citizen, Angelou never lost her spirit of adventure and discovery as well as her ability to overcome.
Named an Outstanding Academic Title of the Year by Choice in 2015, this new edition includes two new chapters on Angelou's connections to Africa and on her final years.
In her discussion of Angelou's methods of writing her stunning autobiography, which began with the 1970 publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Wagner-Martin writes about the influences of the Harlem Writers Group (led by James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and John O. Killens) as well as Angelou's significant friendships with Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders from both international and African American United States cultures. Crucial concepts throughout include the role of oral traditions, of song and dance, of the spiritualism of art based on religious belief, of Angelou's voiced rhythms and her polished use of dialogue to convey more abstract “meaning.” Wagner-Martin shows that, viewing herself as a global citizen, Angelou never lost her spirit of adventure and discovery as well as her ability to overcome.
Named an Outstanding Academic Title of the Year by Choice in 2015, this new edition includes two new chapters on Angelou's connections to Africa and on her final years.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781501365584 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publication date: | 01/14/2021 |
Edition description: | 2nd ed. |
Pages: | 304 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d) |
About the Author
Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She was the 2011 recipient of the Hubbell Medal for lifetime service in American literature (sponsored by the MLA), and has published more than fifty-five books of criticism, some edited, including Sylvia Plath: A Biography (1987) and “Favored Strangers”: Gertrude Stein and Her Family (1995), as well as studies of Ernest Hemingway, Zelda Fitzgerald, Barbara Kingsolver, and others.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations be Acknowledgments xi
Preface xii
1 Marguerite Annie Johnson, April 4, 1928 1
2 Ambivalence is not so easy 17
3 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 29
4 Gather Together in My Name 43
5 Music, poetry, and being alive 55
6 Singin' and Swingin' and Getting' Merry Like Christmas 65
7 The Heart of a Woman 85
8 Africa 107
9 A Song Flung Up to Heaven 121
10 Poems and the public spotlight 143
11 From autobiography to the essay 167
12 Maya Angelou as spirit leader 187
13 "Given to grace notes": Words as music in Maya Angelou's writing 209
14 The last years 233
Bibliography 247
Index 275
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