Maya Angelou (1928–2014)
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Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928 in Saint Louis, Missouri. At the age of 16, she became not only the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco but the first woman conductor. In the mid-1950s, she toured Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess. In mehr anzeigen 1957, she recorded her first album, Calypso Lady. In 1958, she became a part of the Harlem Writers Guild in New York and played a queen in The Blacks, an off-Broadway production by French dramatist Jean Genet. In 1960, she moved to Cairo, where she edited The Arab Observer, an English-language weekly newspaper. The following year, she went to Ghana where she was features editor of The African Review and taught music and drama at the University of Ghana. In 1964, she moved back to the U.S. to become a civil rights activist by helping Malcolm X build his new coalition, the Organization of African American Unity, and became the northern coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Even though she never went to college, she taught American studies for years at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. In 1993, she became only the second poet in United States history to write and recite an original poem at a Presidential Inauguration when she read On the Pulse of Morning at President Bill Clinton's Inauguration Ceremony. She wrote numerous books during her lifetime including: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and Mom and Me and Mom. In 2011, President Barack Obama gave her the Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, for her collected works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. She appeared in the movie Roots and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1977 for her role in the movie. She also played a part in the movie, How to Make an American Quilt and wrote and produced Afro-Americans in the Arts, a PBS special for which she received a Golden Eagle Award. She was a three-time Grammy winner. She died on May 28, 2014 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Level 6 (Lernmaterialien) (Penguin Longman Penguin Readers) (2002) 51 Exemplare
Selected from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Heart of a Woman (Writers Voices) (1989) 47 Exemplare
OMNIBUS: I KNOW WHY THE CAGE BIRD SINGS, GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME AND SINGIN' AND SWINGIN' AND GETTIN' MERRY LIKE… (1991) 33 Exemplare
Our Grandmothers 6 Exemplare
Maya Angelou 5 Exemplare
Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas,… (1995) 4 Exemplare
Poems( Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie/Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well/And Still I Rise/Shaker… (1996) 4 Exemplare
Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul 3 Exemplare
Maya Angelou 8 Books Collection Set (And Still I Rise,Mom and Me and Mom,The Heart Of A Woman,Song Flung Up to… (2020) 2 Exemplare
KADIN KALBİ 2 Exemplare
The aristocrat 2 Exemplare
Miss Calypso [Sound Recording] 2 Exemplare
Malcolm X : Make It Plain 1 Exemplar
Eu Sei Por Que o Pássaro Canta na Gaiola 1 Exemplar
Maya Angelou Boxed Set 1 Exemplar
Why the Caged Bird Sings 1 Exemplar
GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME by Maya Angelou 1 Exemplar
Mit jedem Schlag unserer Flügel 1 Exemplar
O coração de uma mulher (Portuguese Edition) 1 Exemplar
These Yet To Be United States 1 Exemplar
Touched By An Angel 1 Exemplar
The complete selected poems of Maya Angelou 1 Exemplar
They Came to Stay 1 Exemplar
Maya Angelou collection 7 Books set pack (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name,… (2012) 1 Exemplar
The Runaway 1 Exemplar
101 Quotes and Sayings From Maya Angelou: Inspirational Quotes From Phenomenal Woman (2014) 1 Exemplar
Li'L Dan the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story 1 Exemplar
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now & Even the Stars Look Lonesome (2 volumes) (1993) 1 Exemplar
Maya Angelou Collection 4 Books Set, (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin'… (2012) 1 Exemplar
Angelou, Maya Archive 1 Exemplar
Deep Rivers in my Soul 1 Exemplar
Maya Angelou: 6 book collection - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Gather together in My Name / Singin & Swinging &… (2010) 1 Exemplar
As Seen Through These Eyes 1 Exemplar
Maya Angelou - Miss Calypso LP 1 Exemplar
Maya Angelou-member choice 1 Exemplar
En toch heradem ik 1 Exemplar
American Saint: The Life of Elizabeth Seton 1 Exemplar
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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Mitwirkender — 518 Exemplare
Written by Herself, Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women (1992) — Mitwirkender — 431 Exemplare
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Mitwirkender — 182 Exemplare
I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (1983) — Mitwirkender — 174 Exemplare
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Mitwirkender — 160 Exemplare
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Mitwirkender — 142 Exemplare
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul (2017) 128 Exemplare
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Mitwirkender — 121 Exemplare
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Mitwirkender — 116 Exemplare
Sacred Stories: A Celebration of the Power of Story to Transform and Heal (1993) — Mitwirkender — 103 Exemplare
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Mitwirkender — 100 Exemplare
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Mitwirkender — 93 Exemplare
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Mitwirkender — 76 Exemplare
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Mitwirkender — 69 Exemplare
She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets (1989) — Mitwirkender — 68 Exemplare
Die Farben Afrikas : die Kunst der Frauen von Mauretanien, Senegal, Mali, Elfenbeinküste, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria (1990) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 59 Exemplare
In My Mother's Kitchen: 25 Writers on Love, Cooking, and Family (2006) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work — Erzähler, einige Ausgaben — 2 Exemplare
Madagascar: The Enchanted Island (Living Edens) [1998 TV episode] — Erzähler — 2 Exemplare
Words Among America: Sixty Poems of Challenge and Hope — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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Wissenswertes
- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Angelou, Maya
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Johnson, Marguerite Ann
- Andere Namen
- Angelou, Maya
- Geburtstag
- 1928-04-04
- Todestag
- 2014-05-28
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Amerika
- Land (für Karte)
- USA
- Geburtsort
- St. Louis, Missouri, VS
- Sterbeort
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina, VS
- Wohnorte
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Stamps, Arkansas, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Sonoma, California, USA
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA - Ausbildung
- George Washington High School, San Francisco
California Labor School, San Francisco - Berufe
- dancer
singer
teacher
actress
activist
Reynolds Professorship of American Studies, Wake Forest University (Zeige alle 8)
memoirist
poet - Beziehungen
- Johnson, Guy (son)
- Organisationen
- Wake Forest University
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature (1999)
National Medal of Arts (2000)
Grammy, Best Spoken Word Album (1993 ∙ 1995 ∙ 2002)
NAACP Spingarn Medal (1994)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2011)
Coretta Scott King Award (1971) (Zeige alle 39)
North Carolina Award in Literature (1987)
Golden Plate Award (1990)
Candace Award (1990)
Langston Hughes Medal (1991)
Horatio Alger Award (1992)
Distinguished Woman of North Carolina Award (1992)
Crystal Award (1992)
Crystal Award (1992)
Inauguration Poet (1993)
Arkansas Black Hall of Fame (1993)
Rollins College Walk of Fame (1994)
Frank G. Wells American Teachers Award (1995)
Homecoming Award (1997)
NAACP Image Award (1998 ∙ 2005 ∙ 2009)
Alston-Jones International Civil & Human Rights Award (1998)
National Women's Hall of Fame (1998)
Christopher Award (1999)
Shelia Award (1999)
EMMA Lifetime Achievement Award (2002)
Charles Evans Hughes Award (2004)
Mother Teresa Award (2006)
Martha Parker Legacy Award (2007)
Voice of Peace Award (2008)
Gracie Award (2008)
Marian Anderson Award (2008)
Lincoln Medal (2008)
ALA Literary Award (2009)
Black Cultural Society Award (2012)
Literarian Award (2013)
Norman Mailer Prize (2013)
Conference of Minority Transportation Officials Lifetime Achievement Award (2014)
Ladies' Home Journal "Woman of the Year in Communication" Award (1976)
Matrix Award (1983) - Kurzbiographie
- Maya Angelou (pronounced /ˈmaɪ.ə ˈændʒəloʊ/;[1] born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928)[2] is an American autobiographer and poet. Having been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton, she is best known for her series of six autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adulthood experiences.[3] The first, best-known, and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), focuses on the first seventeen years of her life, brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award.
Angelou has had a long and varied career, holding jobs such as fry cook, dancer, actress, journalist, educator, television producer, and film director. She was a member of the Harlem Writers Guild in the late 1950s. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and served as Northern Coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Angelou has been highly honored for her body of work, including being awarded over 30 honorary degrees and the nomination of a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie.[4] Since the 1990s, she has had a busy career on the lecture circuit, making about 80 appearances a year. Since 1991, Angelou has taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as recipient of the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies. In 1993, she 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. In 1995, she was recognized for having the longest-running record (two years) on The New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Bestseller List.
With the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou was heralded as a new kind of memoirist, one of the first African American women who was able to publicly discuss her personal life. She became recognized and highly respected as a spokesperson for blacks and women
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Maya Angelou's Library in Legacy Libraries (August 2015)
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La giovane Maya ci accompagna in un viaggio attraverso la sua infanzia, divisa tra la Stamps rurale e l'Arkansas urbano. Affronta con coraggio e resilienza le sfide di una società dominata dal razzismo, subendo umiliazioni e soprusi che forgeranno il suo carattere. Nonostante le avversità, Maya trova rifugio nella forza della famiglia, nella bellezza della natura e nel potere salvifico della parola. La sua passione per la poesia e la letteratura le offre la chiave per emanciparsi e trovare la sua voce.
Il libro non è solo un racconto di sofferenza, ma anche una celebrazione della speranza e della tenacia dello spirito umano. Maya Angelou ci mostra come l'amore, la compassione e la forza di volontà possono permettere di superare anche le barriere più insormontabili. "Io so perché canta l'uccello in gabbia" è un'opera fondamentale per comprendere la storia afroamericana e le lotte per la giustizia sociale. È un libro che ci invita a riflettere sul tema della discriminazione e a coltivare l'empatia verso le esperienze altrui.
Consiglio vivamente la lettura di questo libro a tutti, non solo agli appassionati di letteratura afroamericana. È una storia toccante e universale che ci insegna il valore della libertà, dell'uguaglianza e della dignità umana.
Scrittura poetica e coinvolgente
Racconto vivido e realistico
Tematiche importanti e di grande attualità
Lo stesso personaggio di Maya Angelou è forte e ispiratore
Alcune scene possono risultare crude e disturbanti
La struttura narrativa non è sempre lineare
"Io so perché canta l'uccello in gabbia" è un libro potente e indimenticabile che merita di essere letto e riletto. Alcune citazioni:
Sulla libertà:
"L'uccello in gabbia canta perché ha un'anima libera."
"Non c'è agonia come quella di una gabbia che imprigiona l'anima."
"La libertà è preziosa come l'aria che respiriamo."
Sulla discriminazione:
"Gli occhi degli altri sono come gabbie. Ti guardano e ti definiscono."
"Il razzismo è come una malattia che infetta tutti, neri e bianchi."
"Dobbiamo abbattere le barriere del razzismo e costruire ponti di comprensione."
Sulla speranza:
"Anche se la gabbia è buia, la speranza può illuminarla."
"La forza di volontà può superare qualsiasi ostacolo."
"Dobbiamo continuare a lottare per un futuro migliore, per noi stessi e per le generazioni future."
Sulla forza della parola:
"Le parole possono essere come armi o come piume."
"La poesia è la mia voce, il mio modo di esprimere la mia anima."
"Le parole possono cambiare il mondo."
Sull'amore:
"L'amore è la forza più potente che esista."
"L'amore può superare qualsiasi odio."
"L'amore è la chiave per la felicità."
La scrittura di Maya Angelou è ricca di immagini evocative e di messaggi profondi che rimangono impressi nella mente del lettore.… (mehr)