I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.
by ANGELOU, Maya
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- Hardcover
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McMahons Point, New South Wales, Australia
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Antique Bookshop (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200895
- Title
- I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.
- Author
- ANGELOU, Maya
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lond. The Folio Society.
- Date Published
- 2004.
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Our store is situated at Crows Nest on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, about a 10 minute drive north from the Sydney CBD, and also convenient to trains and buses. The route 320 bus from Sydney CBD will drop you off outside our door.
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Peter is a Past-President of ANZAAB and has organised many of the ANZAAB Book Fairs held in the last two decades.
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