Our MAXnotes for Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings study guide includes an overall summary, character lists, explanation and discussion of the plot, overview of the work's historical context, and a biography of the author.
Clara M. and Rudolf Kirk (New Haven: College and Univ. Press, 1964), 117. For an excellent discussion of how eighteenth- century English novels represented a split between the rape victim's body and mind see Frances Ferguson, ...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by herself. Miami, Fla.: Mnemosyne Publishing Co., 1969. Schultz, Elizabeth, “Free in Fact and at Last: The Image of the Black Woman in Black American Fiction.” In What Manner of Woman: ...
Collects critical essays on the author's autobiographical work
Along with Braxton's introduction and the Claudia Tate interview, the selected essays provide a range of critical approaches to the text.
Includes a brief biography of Maya Angelou, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.