Challenging Stereotypes: A Study of Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

##plugins.themes.academic_pro.article.main##

Smriti Deori

Abstract

Autobiographical acts often are attempts at visibility. The autobiographical works of African American women arise from their socio-historical positions as blacks and females and embody their attempts to gain acceptability. Such works are important documents that serve the socio-political purposes of dispelling common negative images. The present paper concerns itself with how Maya Angelou's first volume of autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) rejects a prominent stereotyping of black women”that of the ‘matriarch' and how it presents them as constituting a unique fraternity called ‘black womanhood.'

##plugins.themes.academic_pro.article.details##

How to Cite
Deori, S. (2015). Challenging Stereotypes: A Study of Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies, 3(12). Retrieved from https://internationaljournalcorner.com/index.php/theijhss/article/view/138378