Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit
Autor Prof Linda Wagner-Martinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 noi 2015
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501307843
ISBN-10: 1501307843
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 12 b/w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1501307843
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 12 b/w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Explores
Angelou's
public
persona,
the
image
she
projected
and
that
was
projected
on
to
her,
and
the
position
of
the
writer
as
celebrity,
activist,
public
speaker,
and
cultural
and
literary
icon
Notă biografică
Linda
Wagner-Martinis
Hanes
Professor
of
English
and
Comparative
Literature
at
The
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Chapel
Hill,
USA.
She
was
the
2011
recipient
of
the
Hubbell
Medal
for
lifetime
service
in
American
literature
(sponsored
by
the
MLA),
and
has
published
more
than
fifty-five
books
of
criticism,
some
edited,
includingSylvia
Plath:
A
Biography(1987)
and"Favored
Strangers":
Gertrude
Stein
and
Her
Family(1995).
Recent
books
areA
History
of
American
Literature
from
1950
to
the
Present(2013)
andToni
Morrison
and
the
Maternal(2014).
Cuprins
List
of
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
PrefaceChapter
One:
Marguerite
Annie
Johnson,
April
4,
1928Chapter
Two:
Ambivalence
Is
Not
So
EasyChapter
Three:I
Know
Why
the
Caged
Bird
SingsChapter
Four:
Gather
Together
in
My
NameChapter
Five:
Music,
Poetry,
and
Being
AliveChapter
Six:Singin'
and
Swingin'
and
Gettin'
Merry
Like
ChristmasChapter
Seven:The
Heart
of
a
WomanChapter
Eight:
AfricaChapter
Nine:A
Song
Flung
Up
to
HeavenChapter
Ten:
Poems
and
the
Public
SpotlightChapter
Eleven:
From
Autobiography
to
the
EssayChapter
Twelve:
Maya
Angelou
as
Spirit
LeaderPrimary
and
Secondary
BibliographyIndex
Recenzii
This
book
offers
an
accessible,
clear
biography
of
the
highly
acclaimed
poet,
essayist,
memoirist,
educator,
and
civil
rights
activist.
Refreshingly
unburdened
by
footnotes
and
theoretical
digressions,
the
book
applies
a
wide-angle
lens
to
Angelou's
life
and
provides
a
sweeping
view
of
the
woman
and
her
works.
The
approach
is
nonetheless
scholarly:
Wagner-Martin
(Univ.
of
North
Carolina,
Chapel
Hill)
frames
her
discussion
of
Angelou's
life
with
other
critics'
viewpoints
and
emphasizes
Angelou's
influence
on
the
larger
literary
world.
The
book
is
as
much
a
biography
of
Angelou's
writings
as
it
is
a
biography
of
the
woman.
Wagner-Martin
smartly
anchors
her
study
in
Angelou's
six
autobiographies,
beginning
withI
Know
Why
the
Caged
Bird
Sings-thus
highlighting
for
readers
her
subject's
growth
as
an
author.
Wagner-Martin
even
posits
that
Angelou's
poetry
gives
insight
into
her
love
life.
She
also
provides
an
analysis
of
some
of
Angelou's
essays
and
her
important
work
as
a
civil
rights
activist.
The
book
includes
a
useful
bibliography
of
primary
sources
-poems,
autobiographies,
essays,
spoken-word
albums,
children's
books,
screenplays,
and
so
on-as
well
as
a
comprehensive
bibliography
of
secondary
sources.Summing
Up:Essential.
Lower-division
undergraduates
through
faculty;
general
readers.
Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spiritis a perfectly timed, must-have volume for any reader interested in the life and work of the writer, activist, campaigner and performer Maya Angelou. In a vivacious and accessible study, eminent scholar Linda Wagner-Martin combines biography and literary criticism, spanning Angelou's first book to her final publication in 2014 - a poem on the death of Nelson Mandela. Wagner-Martin considers Angelou's life as an African American in the US, her life as stage and film performer, her full involvement in the Civil Rights actions of the 1960s and her travels abroad in Egypt, Africa and Europe alongside her literary career, recognizing Angelou's dexterous maneuvering of genre. In a manner befitting its subject,Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spiritachieves that rare balance: incisive, scholarly, well-researched, but also immensely enjoyable to read.
Kudos to Linda Wagner-Martin, one of our most esteemed literary critics, for her superb scholarship inMaya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit. This accessible and deeply engaging study launches a new era in the assessment of a very important author and world-changing woman.
This engaging study brings much-needed scholarly attention to Maya Angelou's memoirs and poetry and shows how Angelou's political involvement and time in Africa inform her writing. Linda Wagner-Martin's interest in the use of language mirrors Angelou's own and highlights the unities in Angelou's wide-ranging career.
The greatest contribution ofMaya Angelouis the seriousness with which it takes Angelou as a writer ... for Angelou's reputation as a writer is often dwarfed by her reputation as inspirational public figure and a cosmopolitan woman of the world ... [Wagner-Martin] reminds us that Angelou first came to public attention as an original literary voice, telling a story that had not been told: that of an impoverished, brainy black girl in a world that did not wish to see poverty and saw no value in the life of a black girl child. Wagner-Martin's contextualization and explication of that first memoir,I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is extraordinary ...Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spiritis an important early contribution to studies of Angelou's life and writing. By focusing on the literary Angelou, it reminds us that she first came to our attention as a writer of compelling prose and a gifted storyteller who wrote her way into existence.,
Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spiritis a perfectly timed, must-have volume for any reader interested in the life and work of the writer, activist, campaigner and performer Maya Angelou. In a vivacious and accessible study, eminent scholar Linda Wagner-Martin combines biography and literary criticism, spanning Angelou's first book to her final publication in 2014 - a poem on the death of Nelson Mandela. Wagner-Martin considers Angelou's life as an African American in the US, her life as stage and film performer, her full involvement in the Civil Rights actions of the 1960s and her travels abroad in Egypt, Africa and Europe alongside her literary career, recognizing Angelou's dexterous maneuvering of genre. In a manner befitting its subject,Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spiritachieves that rare balance: incisive, scholarly, well-researched, but also immensely enjoyable to read.
Kudos to Linda Wagner-Martin, one of our most esteemed literary critics, for her superb scholarship inMaya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit. This accessible and deeply engaging study launches a new era in the assessment of a very important author and world-changing woman.
This engaging study brings much-needed scholarly attention to Maya Angelou's memoirs and poetry and shows how Angelou's political involvement and time in Africa inform her writing. Linda Wagner-Martin's interest in the use of language mirrors Angelou's own and highlights the unities in Angelou's wide-ranging career.
The greatest contribution ofMaya Angelouis the seriousness with which it takes Angelou as a writer ... for Angelou's reputation as a writer is often dwarfed by her reputation as inspirational public figure and a cosmopolitan woman of the world ... [Wagner-Martin] reminds us that Angelou first came to public attention as an original literary voice, telling a story that had not been told: that of an impoverished, brainy black girl in a world that did not wish to see poverty and saw no value in the life of a black girl child. Wagner-Martin's contextualization and explication of that first memoir,I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is extraordinary ...Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spiritis an important early contribution to studies of Angelou's life and writing. By focusing on the literary Angelou, it reminds us that she first came to our attention as a writer of compelling prose and a gifted storyteller who wrote her way into existence.,