SexViolHist Bib: Victims: Narratives: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

»I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Atkins, Christine E. "Don’t Walk Alone": Twentieth Century American Women Writers and Narratives of Violence. Ph.D. Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2000.

[Info] Badia, Janet. »"Dismissed, trivialized, misread": Re-Examining the Reception of Women's Literature through the #MeToo Movement.« #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture. New York 2021: 31-42.

[Info] Fernandes, Lilly. »Traumatic Stories of Humiliation and Ill-Treatment in African American Biographies.« Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 4 (2013): 323-326.

[Info] Field, Robin E. Writing the Victim: Rescripting Rape in Contemporary American Fiction since 1970. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Virginia, 2006.

[Info] Froula, Christine. »The daughter’s seduction. Sexual violence and literary history.« Signs 11 (1986): 621-644.

[Info] Froula, Christine. »The daughter’s seduction. Sexual violence and literary history.« Daughters and fathers. Edited by Lynda E. Boose et al. Baltimore 1989: 111-135.

[Info] Froula, Christine. »The daughter’s seduction. Sexual violence and literary history.« Feminist theory in practice and process. Edited by Micheline R. Malson et al. Chicago 1989: 139-162.

[Info] Froula, Christine. »The daughter’s seduction. Sexual violence and literary history.« Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Edited by Harold Bloom. Philadelphia 1998: 47-68.

[Info] Jain, Usha, et al. »Ego Resistance, Oppression and Resilience of Self Esteem in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou.« International Journal of Multidisciplinary and Current Research 2 (2014): 373-376.

[Info] Noon, Mary J. Beyond Breaking the Silence: Race, Gender, and Survivor Subjectivities in Feminist Rape Narratives by Contemporary American Women of Color. M.A. Thesis, Texas Christian University, 2009.

[Info] Nouri, Najmeh. »Signifying Narratives: Revolting Voices in Alice Walker’s and Maya Angelou’s Narratives.« Iranian EFL Journal 8 (2012): 418-426.

[Info] Vermillion, Mary. »Reembodying the self. Representations of rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.« Biography 15 (1992): 243-260.

II. Speaker Index