Group E - Maya Angelou

Read this Article about Maya Angelou.
Start at Angelou's work, and stop at Style and Genre.

Take notes from the article on a piece of paper. When you are finished reply to this thread and write your notes of what you learned about Maya Angelou.

When everyone in the group has written their notes, your group needs to pick the best one.

Each person in the group needs to have at least 3 replies to this thread as you decide which notes are the best.

Angelou has also recongnized that there are fictional aspects to her book.
Hagen places Angelou in the long tradition of African American autobiography, but insists that she has created a unique interpretation of the autobiographical from.
That although avoids a "monolithic Black language."
When Angelou wrote caged at the end of the 1960s.

Angelou is the first African American women

Angelou's use of fiction-writing techniques such as dialogue, characterization, development of theme, setting, plot, and launguage.

Angelou made a deliberate attempt in her books to challenge the common structure of the autobiography by critiquing, changing, and expanding the genre.

They are written by a single author, they are chronological, and they are contain elements of character, technique, and theme.

Africa American autobiography written during the abolitionist period of U.S history.

Angelou gaol is to create a book that satisfied that criteria.

angelou wrote her first autobiography with out the intention of writing a series, she han open her life to public secrutiny through her work. angelou was the first americean woman to direct amajor motion picture, she wrote a book call Caged Bird and this episodic and crafted like a series of short stories, angelou use the same editor throughout her writing career, her career includs poetry, plays, screenplays,for television and film, directing, acting and public spiking. in 1977 she appeared in a supporting rule in the television mini series roots, in 2006 she had a cameo in medeas family reunion as may. angelou was hailed as a new kind of memorist one of the first African American women who was able to publicily discuss her personal life.