Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Your search for information on Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on Maya Angelou and her autobiographical work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

To find books written about Maya Angelou, search by Subject. To find books written by Maya Angelou, search by Author. Always type the last name first, e.g. Angelou, Maya.

The following books may be useful in your research.

Biographical Sources

Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers

REF PS153 .N5 A39 1985

Volume 38

Magill’s Survey of American Literature

REF PS21 M34 2007

Volume 1

Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series

REF PN771 .C78

Volume 65

Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States

REF PS147 O94 1995 (pgs. 51-52)

Something About the Author

REF PN451 .S6

Volume 49

Women Memoirists

PS366 A88 W64 1998

Volume 1 (pgs. 1-12)

Contemporary American Women Poets: An A to Z Guide

REF PS151 .C665 2002

American Writers: Supplement IV

REF PS129 .A55 Suppl 4 pt. 1

Notable African American Writers

REF PS153 .N5 N68 2006

Volume 1

Critical Sources

Black Literature Criticism

REF PS153 .N5 B556 1992

Volume 1

Contemporary Literary Criticism

REF PN771 .C59

Volumes 12, 35 64, 77, 155

Conversations with Maya Angelou

PS3551 .N464 Z4635 1998

Masterpieces of Women’s Literature

REF PS147 M37 1996

(Pgs. 282-284)

Maya Angelou: A Critical Companion

PS3551 .N464 Z7578 1998

Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

PS3551 .N464 Z77 1996

Modern Women Writers

REF PN471 M62 1996

Volume 1 (pgs. 119-127)

Novels for Students

REF PN3385 .N68

Volume 2

Readings on Maya Angelou

PS3551 .N464 Z84 1997

Wild Women in the Whirlwind

PS153 N5 W47 1990

(Pgs. 302-305)

Journal Articles

Journal and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic.

To find articles on your topic, use one of the online databases listed below. These databases usually provide full-text articles on almost every topic. Conduct your search in these databases by using subject headings and keywords similar to those you used to locate books.

GaleNet Literature Resource Center
Project Muse
EbscoHost
Ethnic News Watch
Gender Watch

For remote access to the library databases, see E-Resource Login & Searching Options.

For historical research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.

Internet Sites

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research.

VG: Artist biography: Angelou, Maya

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/angelou_maya.html

This is a profile and critique of Maya Angelou, briefly reviewing her autobiographical novels depicting "what it was like to be a black girl in a world whose boundaries were set by whites." The related links provide additional background on her life and works.

Maya Angelou: The Official Website

http://www.mayaangelou.com/

Primarily a biographical site.

Visions: Maya Angelou

http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/1995/05/kelley.html

An interview with Ken Kelley for Mother Jones, 1995.

IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=ang-82

SW, MO 04/03, Rev BR 10/06, SW 03/07

Web Author: Lorraine Gersitz (lgersitz@cerritos.edu)
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