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Maya Angelou
Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web
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Scope: Maya Angelou is a highly acclaimed poet and novelist whose works deal with her experiences as a black American woman. Her autobiographical novel I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings, was highly successful. The subjects for her poetry are social issues dealing with what it means to be black. Love, youth, and aging are some of the themes explored in her works. |
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books written by and about Maya Angelou have the call number(s) PS 3551.N464
Some representative books from the circulating collection located upstairs in the library are:
Braxton, Joanne M. Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopies. The following titles are appropriate for this topic:
REF E 185.96.B545 Black Writers
REF PS 303.C64 1993 The Columbia History of American Poetry
REF PS 21.D5 V38 Dictionary of Literary Biography; Afro-American Writers after 1955; Dramatists and Prose Writers
REF PR 111.F45 1990b The Feminist Companion to Literature in English
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
WEB
SITES
Teacher Resource File
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/angelou.htm
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
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Updated
02/08/2007
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