1. Maya Angelou
North Senior Academy

2. Maya Angelou
North Senior Academy

3. Maya Angelou
I Know why the caged bird sings
North Senior Academy

4. Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Prolific writer of books, plays, poetry, speeches
Autobiographies
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
Gather Together in My Name (1974)
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976)
The Heart of a Woman (1981)
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986)
A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002)

5. Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Genre: Autobiography / Autobiographical novel
Published: 1969
Narrative Mode: Angelou speaks in the first person
Time: 1930s – 1950s
Place: Stamps, Arkansas; St. Louis, Missouri; Oakland, California; San Francisco, California

6. Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Themes and Motifs
Racism and Segregation
Displacement
Survivors
Resistance to Racism
Strong Black Women
Love of literature
Names and Naming

7. Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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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. It is an unnecessary insult.

8. Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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If Bailey was talking so fast he forgot to stutter, he forgot to scratch his head and clean his fingernails with his teeth. He was away in a mystery, locked in the enigma that young Southern Black boys start to unravel, start to try to unravel, from seven years old to death. The humorless puzzle of inequality and hate.

9. Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence.

10. Maya Angelou
I Know why the caged bird sings
North Senior Academy

11. Maya Angelou
I Know why the caged bird sings
North Senior Academy