This is the first of Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography, in which she evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of a white skin and suffers the trauma of rape by her mother's lover
Analysis
United States African Americans: Angelou, Maya - Biographies
Notes
Originally published: New York : Random House, 1969
Thesis (M.A.)-Flinders Univ. of S.A., 1973
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Originally published: New York : Random House, 1969
