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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Mass market paperbound - 1983
by Maya Angelou
About this book
Titled after a stanza from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem
“Sympathy,” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first of a series of seven autobiographical
novels by African-American poet and writer Maya Angelou. Personally deeply
involved and affected by the civil rights movement, the volume explores racism
and identity in her early life.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was nominated for the National Book Award in 1970. However, due to its depiction of controversial subjects such as sexuality, lesbianism and rape, the use of the novel in classrooms has been frequently challenged.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was nominated for the National Book Award in 1970. However, due to its depiction of controversial subjects such as sexuality, lesbianism and rape, the use of the novel in classrooms has been frequently challenged.
Summary
Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant.From the Hardcover edition.
First Edition Identification
Random House published the first edition of the novel in 1969. Markings for a first edition are characteristic of the publisher with the words "First Edition" clearly stated on the copyright page. The first issue also has a red-stained top edge.
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- Title I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Author Maya Angelou
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bantam Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date April 1, 1983
- ISBN 9780553279375 / 0553279378
- Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 6.88 x 4.26 x 0.91 in (17.48 x 10.82 x 2.31 cm)
- Reading level 1010
- Library of Congress subjects African American women authors - 20th century, Entertainers - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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