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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Mass market paperbound - 2009
by Maya Angelou; Foreword by Oprah Winfrey
Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in racially charged Arkansas in the 1930s brings to vivid life a world which most Americans had no idea existed.
About this book
Titled after a stanza from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem
“Sympathy,” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first of a series of seven autobiographical
novels by African-American poet and writer Maya Angelou. Personally deeply
involved and affected by the civil rights movement, the volume explores racism
and identity in her early life.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was nominated for the National Book Award in 1970. However, due to its depiction of controversial subjects such as sexuality, lesbianism and rape, the use of the novel in classrooms has been frequently challenged.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was nominated for the National Book Award in 1970. However, due to its depiction of controversial subjects such as sexuality, lesbianism and rape, the use of the novel in classrooms has been frequently challenged.
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Random House published the first edition of the novel in 1969. Markings for a first edition are characteristic of the publisher with the words "First Edition" clearly stated on the copyright page. The first issue also has a red-stained top edge.
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- Title I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Author Maya Angelou; Foreword by Oprah Winfrey
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ballantine Books, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-04-21
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780345514400 / 0345514408
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 6.9 x 4.1 x 1 in (17.53 x 10.41 x 2.54 cm)
- Reading level 860
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Arkansas
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, African American authors
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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