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Biography & Autobiography.
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HTML:In this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
??A curiously heartening story in which decency, honor, truth, love do exist, imperfectly, fractionally and flickeringly, not in some Platonic realm of the ideal, but in the flawed lives of real men and women.???The Washington Post
Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou??s personal story, begun so unforgettably in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense of optimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has given birth to a son. But the next few years are difficult ones as she tries to find a place in the world for herself and her child. She goes from job to job??and from man to man. She tries to return home??back to Stamps, Arkansas??but discovers that she is no longer part of that world. Then Maya??s life takes a dramatic turn, and she faces new cha… (plus d'informations)
L'écriture est belle, mais ce roman biographique est déconcertant tellement la jeune femme qu'a été Maya Angelou est naïve, jusqu'à la bêtise. C'est comme ça que je l'ai ressenti, et ça m'a gâché la lecture, me posant toujours la question de savoir si l'auteure forçait le trait pour paraître aussi crédule face à des hommes qui la menait en bateau... ( )
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This book is dedicated to my blood brother Bailey Johnson and to the other real brothers who encouraged me to be bodacious enough to invent my own life daily: James Baldwin, Kwesi Brew, David Du Bois, Samuel Floyd, John O. Killens, Vagabond King, Leo Maitland, Vusumzi Make, Julian Mayfield, Max Roach. A special thanks to my friend Dolly McPherson.
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It was a "come as you are" party and "all y'all come."
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Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais.Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
Biography & Autobiography.
African American Nonfiction.
Nonfiction.
HTML:In this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
??A curiously heartening story in which decency, honor, truth, love do exist, imperfectly, fractionally and flickeringly, not in some Platonic realm of the ideal, but in the flawed lives of real men and women.???The Washington Post
Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou??s personal story, begun so unforgettably in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense of optimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has given birth to a son. But the next few years are difficult ones as she tries to find a place in the world for herself and her child. She goes from job to job??and from man to man. She tries to return home??back to Stamps, Arkansas??but discovers that she is no longer part of that world. Then Maya??s life takes a dramatic turn, and she faces new cha
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