[net-gold] Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86
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- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 12:01:23 -0400 (EDT)
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Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86
By MARGALIT FOX
MAY 28, 2014
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/arts/maya-angelou-
lyrical-witness-of-the-jim-crow-south-dies-at-86.html
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Maya Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, I Know
Why the Caged Bird Sings which describes in lyrical, unsparing prose her
childhood in the Jim Crow South was among the first autobiographies by a
20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readership, died on
Wednesday in her home. She was 86 and lived in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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Her death was confirmed by her longtime literary agent, Helen Brann. No
immediate cause of death had been determined, but Ms. Brann said Ms.
Angelou had been in frail health for some time and had had heart problems.
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As well known as she was for her memoirs, which eventually filled six
volumes, Ms. Angelou very likely received her widest exposure on a chilly
January day in 1993, when she delivered the inaugural poem, On the Pulse
of Morning, at the swearing-in of Bill Clinton, the nations 42nd
president, who, like Ms. Angelou, had grown up poor in rural Arkansas.
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Long before that day, as she recounted in Caged Bird and its five sequels,
she had already been a dancer, calypso singer, streetcar conductor, single
mother, magazine editor in Cairo, administrative assistant in Ghana,
official of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and friend or
associate of some of the most eminent black Americans of the mid-20th
century, including James Baldwin, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and
Malcolm X.
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Afterward (her six-volume memoir takes her only to the age of 40), Ms.
Angelou (pronounced AHN-zhe-lo) was a Tony-nominated stage actress;
college professor (she was for many years the Reynolds professor of
American studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem); ubiquitous
presence on the lecture circuit; frequent guest on television shows, from
Oprah to Sesame Street; and subject of a string of scholarly studies.
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In February 2011, President Obama presented her with the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, the countrys highest civilian honor.
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Throughout her writing, Ms. Angelou explored the concepts of personal
identity and resilience through the multifaceted lens of race, sex,
family, community and the collective past. As a whole, her work offered a
cleareyed examination of the ways in which the socially marginalizing
forces of racism and sexism played out at the level of the individual.
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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her
displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat, Ms.
Angelou wrote in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
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Hallmarks of Ms. Angelous prose style included a directness of voice that
recalls African-American oral tradition and gives her work the quality of
testimony. She was also intimately concerned with sensation, describing
the world around her be it Arkansas, San Francisco or the foreign cities
in which she lived with palpable feeling for its sights, sounds and
smells.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, published when Ms. Angelou was in her
early 40s, spans only her first 17 years. But what powerfully formative
years they were.
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Maya Angelou
From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou
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Maya Angelou (/?ma?.? ?d??lo?/;[1][2] born Marguerite Ann Johnson; April
4, 1928 May 28, 2014) was an American author and poet. She published
seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry,
and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows
spanning more than fifty years. She received dozens of awards and over
thirty honorary doctoral degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of
seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult
experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of
her life up to the age of seventeen, and brought her international
recognition and acclaim.
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She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young
adult, including fry cook, prostitute, night-club dancer and performer,
cast-member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during
the days of decolonization. She was an actor, writer, director, and
producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. Since 1982, she
taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where
she holds the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies.
She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with Martin Luther
King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Since the 1990s she made around eighty
appearances a year on the lecture circuit, something she continued into
her eighties. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning"
at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the first poet to make an
inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration
in 1961.
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With the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou publicly
discussed aspects of her personal life. She was respected as a
spokesperson of black people and women, and her works have been considered
a defense of black culture. Although attempts have been made to ban her
books from some US libraries, her works are widely used in schools and
universities worldwide. Angelou's major works have been labeled as
autobiographical fiction, but many critics have characterized them as
autobiographies. She made a deliberate attempt to challenge the common
structure of the autobiography by critiquing, changing, and expanding the
genre. Her books center on themes such as racism, identity, family, and
travel. Angelou is best known for her autobiographies, but she is also an
established poet, although her poems have received mixed reviews.
Contents
1 Life and career
1.1 Early years
1.2 Adulthood and early career: 195161
1.3 Africa to Caged Bird: 196169
1.4 Later career
1.5 Death
1.6 Personal life
2 Works
2.1 Chronology of autobiographies
3 Reception and legacy
3.1 Influence
3.2 Critical reception
3.3 Awards and honors
3.4 Uses in education
4 Poetry
5 Style and genre in autobiographies
6 References
6.1 Explanatory notes
6.2 Citations
6.3 Works cited
7 External links
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https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22Maya+Angelou%22
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