In Maya Angelou’s name

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n358624

Abstract

This paper proposes to critically reassess Maya Angelou’s second autobiographical work,
Gather together in my name (2004 [1974]). In her literary representation of herself, Angelou chronicles her life journey as a young black woman with a fatherless child struggling to survive with freedom in the markedly racist and sexist American society of the 1940s. A close reading of the sinuosity of the narrative fragments reveals that Angelou composes a variety of womanist prose, according to Alice Walker (1983), identified as poetics of her autobiographical truth, through which the writer examines her inner life, disturbs preconceived cultural conceptions of women of African descent, and redresses omission of this historical subject who regenerates herself.

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Author Biography

Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues, Fundação Técnico-Educacional Souza Marques (FTESM)

Professor adjunto de língua inglesa e literaturas de língua inglesa na Fundação Técnico-Educacional Souza Marques (FTESM). Pós-Doutor em Literatura Comparada pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) com bolsa FAPERJ Nota 10 (2017). Doutor em Literatura Comparada pela UERJ (2016). Realizou estágio doutoral no Dartmouth College, EUA, com bolsa CAPES/Fulbright (2014-2015).

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2019-12-20

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Rodrigues, F. F. X. (2019). In Maya Angelou’s name. Revista Estudos Feministas, 27(3). https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n358624

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Vol. 27 No. 3 (2019)

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