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Criticism and Reviews of Individual Volumes
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Arensberg, Liliane K. “Death as Metaphor of Self in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” College Language Association Journal 20 (1976): 273–96.
Demetrakopoulous, Stephanie A. “The Metaphysics of Matrilinearism in Women’s Autobiography: Studies of Mead’s Blackberry Winter, Hellman’s Pentimento, Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.” In Women’s Autobiography: Essays in Criticism. Ed. Estelle Jelinek. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980: 180–205.
Gross, R. A. “Growing Up Black.” Rev. of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Newsweek, March 2, 1970: 90–91.
Guiney, E. M. Rev. of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Library Journal, March 16, 1970: 1018.
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. “Books of the Times: Masculine and Feminine.” Rev. of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York Times, February 25, 1970: 45.
Minudri, Regina. Rev. of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Library Journal, June 15, 1970: 2320.
Smith, Sidonie Ann. “The Song of a Caged Bird: Maya Angelou’s Quest after Self-Acceptance.” Southern Humanities Review 7 (1973): 365–75.
Sutherland, Zena. Rev. of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Saturday Review, May 9, 1970: 70.
Vermillion, Mary. “Re-embodying the Self: Representations of Rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Biography 15 (1992): 243–60.
Gather Together in My Name
Adams, Phoebe. Rev. of Gather Together in My Name. Atlantic, June 1974: 233.
Almeida, Ruth E. Rev. of Gather Together in My Name. Library Journal, June 1, 1974: 1538.
Bloom, Lynn Z. “Maya Angelou.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 38. Detroit: Gale, 1985: 3–12.
Cudjoe, Selwyn R. “Maya Angelou and the Autobiographical Statement.” In Black Women Writers (1950–1980): A Critical Evaluation. Ed. Mari Evans. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984: 6–24.
Cudjoe, Selwyn R. “Maya Angelou: The Autobiographical Statement Updated.” In Reading Black, Reading Feminist. Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. New York: Penguin, 1990. 272–306.
Gottlieb, Annie. Rev. of Gather Together in My Name. New York Times Book Review, June 16, 1974: 87.
Minudri, Regina. Rev. of Gather Together in My Name. Library Journal, May 15, 1974: 99.
Rev. of Gather Together in My Name. New Republic, July 16, 1974: 32.
Sukenick, Lynn. Rev. of Gather Together in My Name. Village Voice, July 11, 1974: 31.
Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas
Jordan, June. Rev. of Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas. Ms. January 1977: 40–41.
Kuehl, Linda. Rev. of Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas. Saturday Review, October 30, 1976: 46.
Mitchell, Lisa. “Maya Angelou: Sometimes She Feels Like a Motherless Child.” Rev. of Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas. Los Angeles Times, November 21, 1976: 5.
Robinson, Kathryn. Rev. of Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas. Southern Literary Journal, Summer 1976: 144.
The Heart of a Woman
Cosgrave, M. S. Rev. of The Heart of a Woman. Horn Book, February 1982: 84.
Lewis, David Levering. “A Transitional Time: The Heart of a Woman.” In Readings on Maya Angelou. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 1997: 152–55.
Neubauer, Carol E. “Displacement and Autobiographical Style in Maya Angelou’s The Heart of a Woman.” Black American Literature Forum 17 (1983): 123–29.
Pascal, Sylvia. Rev. of The Heart of a Woman. Southern Literary Journal, December 1981: 88.
Rev. of The Heart of a Woman. Choice, January 1982: 621.
Spigner, Nieda. Rev. of The Heart of a Woman. Freedomways 1 (1982): 55.
All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
Baker, Houston. Rev. of All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes. New York Times Book Review, May 11, 1986: 14.
Blundell, Janet Boyarin. Rev. of All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes. Library Journal, March 15, 1986: 64.
Gropman, Jackie. Rev. of All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes. Southern Literary Journal, August 1986: 113.
Gruesser, John C. “Afro-American Travel Literature and Africanist Discourse.” Black American Literature Forum 24 (1990): 5–20.
McDowell, Deborah E. “Traveling Hopefully.” The Women’s Review of Books 4 (October 1986): 17.
Rev. of All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes. Time, March 31, 1986: 72.
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Als, Hilton. “Song Bird.” The New Yorker, August 5, 2002: 72–76.
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Busby, Margaret. “I am headed for higher ground.” Rev. of A Song Flung Up to Heaven. The Guardian, June 15, 2002. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jun/15/biography.highereducation. Web. January 7, 2015.
Coleman, Wanda. Rev. of A Song Flung Up to Heaven. Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2002. Rpt. wysiwig://htttp;//blgs.salon.com/0001118/2002/08.17.html.
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Davis, Thulani. “Slam Queen vs. Inaugural Poet.” Village Voice. wysiwyg;//16/http://www.villagevoice.com./issues/0236/davis.php. September 4–10, 2002. 1–6. Web. January 12, 2015.
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Lupton, Mary Jane. “Spinning in a Whirlwind: Sexuality in Maya Angelou’s Sixth Autobiography.” The Middle-Atlantic Writers Association Review 18:1 and 2 (June/December 2003): 1–6.
McWhorter, John. “Saint Maya.” Rev. of A Song Flung Up to Heaven. The New Republic online. May 16, 2002. www.powells.com/review/2002_05_16,html. Web. January 7, 2015.
Rev. of A Song Flung Up to Heaven. Publishers Weekly, 2002. http://www.publishersweekly.com/0_375_-50747-7. Web. January 8, 2015.
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