Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Introduction -- Breaking Out of the Cage: The Autobiographical Writings of Maya Angelou -- Racial Protest, Identity, Words, and Form in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Only Necessary Baggage:...
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Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Introduction -- Breaking Out of the Cage: The Autobiographical Writings of Maya Angelou -- Racial Protest, Identity, Words, and Form in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Only Necessary Baggage: Maya Angelou's Life Journeys -- Hurston's and Angelou's Visual Art: The Distancing Vision and the Beckoning Gaze -- The Heart of the Matter: Motherhood and Marriage in the Autobiographies of Maya Angelou -- "Spinning in a Whirlwind": Sexuality in Maya Angelou's Sixth Autobiography -- Maya Angelou Writing Life, Inventing Literary Genre -- Maya Angelou's Caged Bird as Trauma Narrative -- The Poetry of Maya Angelou: Liberation Ideology and Technique -- Singin' de Blues, Writing Black Female Survival in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Nigrescence: Mapping the Journey in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Chronology -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.