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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, was first published in 1970.  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a first-person account of Angelou’s life from the age of three, when she arrived in Stamps, Arkansas, to live with her grandmother, to the age of sixteen, when she gave birth to her son in San Francisco.

LINCCWeb online catalog – Search Terms

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Title)
  • Angelou, Maya (Subject)

Call Number for Browsing the Shelves

  • PS3551 .N464

Circulating Books – A Selected List

  • Angelou, Maya. The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou. 2004.

                   Call Number:  PS3551 .N464 Z466 2004

  • Bloom, Harold (Ed.). Modern Critical Interpretations: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 

                    Call Number:  PS3551 .N464 Z77 1998

  • Bloom, Harold (Ed.).  Bloom’s Notes: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1996.

                    Call Number:  PS3551 .N464 Z77 1996

  • Braxton, Joanne (Ed.). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Casebook. 1999.

                     Call Number:  PS3551 .N464 Z794 1999

  • Lupton, Mary Jane.  Maya Angelou: A Critical Companion. 1998.

                    Call Number:  PS3551 .N464 Z7578 1998

  • Megna-Wallace, Joanne. Understanding I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1998.

                      Call Number:  PS3551 .N464 Z79 1998

  • Williams, Mary (Ed.). Readings on Maya Angelou. 1997.

                     Call Number:  PS3551 .N464 Z84 1997

                   

Reference Materials

  • Black Literature Criticism  – Call Number:  REF PS153 .N5 B556 1992

o   Vol. 1, pgs. 27-38

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism  – Call Number:  REF PN771 .C59

o   Vol. 12, pg. 9

o   Vol. 35, pgs. 30-33

o   Vol. 64, pgs. 24-39

o   Vol. 77, pgs. 2-23, 31-35

o   Vol. 155, pgs. 1-58

  • Literature and Its Times – Call Number:  REF PN50 .L574 1997

o   Vol. 4, pgs. 201-208

  • Masterplots:Revised 2nd Edition – Call Number:  REF PN44 .M33 1996

o   Vol. 6, pgs. 3116-3119

  • Novels for Students – Call Number:  REF PN44 .N937

o   Vol. 2, pgs. 133-152

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