Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, was an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. Maya Angelou is known for her series of six autobiographies, starting with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, (1969) which was nominated for a National Book Award and called her magnum opus. Her volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die (1971) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Here is a book as joyous and painful, and as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s first memoir, published in 1969 is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
Sent by their mother to their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” When she journeys at eight to her mother’s side in St. Louis, she is attacked by a man many times her age. Years later, in San Francisco, she learns about love for herself–and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. The kindness of others, Maya’s own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.
Poetic and powerful–now in a beautiful keepsake edition– I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds as long as people read.
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前一陣子,微博上的好友們一直在推廣一本新的譯作——瑪雅•安吉洛的《我知道籠中鳥為何歌唱》(於霄、王笑紅譯)。我也沒太在意,至於是否順手轉瞭一下也忘瞭。過瞭些時候,一天早上,師姐從傢裏迴來,塞給我一本書,譯者的贈書,正是這本《我知道籠中鳥為何歌唱》。書的譯...
評分我手頭的是Bantam 1971版的,封底有James Baldwin的書評: This testimony from a Black sister marks the beginning of a new era...Her portrait is a Biblical study of life in the midst of death." Baldwin從14歲就做store front preacher,但受瞭繼父等人對基督教的失望...
評分發錶於2013年5月10日《文匯讀書周報》 讀美國著名女作傢瑪雅•安吉洛的《我知道籠中鳥為何歌唱》(以下簡稱“《歌唱》”),不禁讓人想起“每個作傢都是在書寫曆史”這句話。她是用自傳的方式、文學的色彩對二十世紀初美國黑人女性的曆史作闡述,自傳方式和文學色彩使她...
評分《文學報》2013年10月17日 網址:http://wenxue.news365.com.cn/wxb/html/2013-10/17/content_172074.htm 這是一麯動人的歌唱。瑪雅·安吉洛既是詩人、作傢,也是舞者、歌手。她於1969年齣版的自傳《我知道籠中鳥為何歌唱》,以充滿詩意而又富有力量的文字,寫下瞭她在美國...
評分瑪雅·安吉洛是誰?舊金山首位黑人電車售票員、三次格萊美奬得主、擁有30多個榮譽學位、民權運動靈魂人物馬丁·路德·金的親密戰友、脫口秀女王歐普拉口中的“我們的女王”……身兼作傢、詩人、舞蹈傢、教授、導演等多重身份,瑪雅在20世紀90年代剋林頓就職儀式上的詩歌朗誦亮相...
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如此細膩和真實的視角,不掩飾不美化,簡單的文字看到人格的強大。她和哥哥的童年樂趣,被媽媽的男友性侵,她的閱讀經曆,無傢可歸和她懷疑自己是否女同,這些都特彆觸動我。
評分喜歡這種自傳題材的讀物。成長,都差不多呢。
評分一年半前看的,現在纔補完,足以看齣我其實沒什麼興趣。語言相當優美,隻不過前麵小女孩的見解真是挺無聊的,到後麵倒感到一下子變風格瞭,特彆是最後兩章。"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance."(272)
評分#讀書# 好看!是觸碰人心的writing,不矯揉造作,也不失幽默,但是確是悲傷的故事。
評分她的語言象詩歌一樣,她的同年如此不幸,很多經曆根本無法想象。所以對她緻敬。
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