The Poetics of Black Feminist Narrative. A Literary Analysis of Maya Angelou's Poetry

Iqbal, Zafar, Parveen, Saima

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Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2018 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1.5, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad (Institute of English), course: English Literature, language: English, abstract: In this research paper, the researcher has tried to find out the image of black female depicted in Maya Angelou's poems. This research has been conducted by qualitative and analytical method because this research has not numerical data. After collecting data, the researcher has analyzed poems and supported by particular idea of feminist Sara Mills. The researcher has chosen only three poems of Angelou from "The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou which are ¿Still I Rise¿, ¿Phenomenal Woman¿ and ¿Caged Bird¿". This study has been conducted by the use of black feminism theory and also focused on words, lines and stanzas. This research gives rise to enhance the argument in literature studies particularly Black Feminism self-esteem. Thus, it can enable others to organize research on African-American females. The analysis has explained that black woman¿s different images are depicted in Maya Angelou's poems. In the first poem ¿Still I Rise¿, Maya Angelou presents black female as a leader of the movement and challenges the society arrangement about black people. In the second poem, ¿Phenomenal Woman¿, Maya Angelou describes a standard of beauty that beauty is not having beautiful face and slim smart body and thin lip. She says that a black woman can be phenomenal woman through her confidence and good personality and proud herself being black woman. In last poem ¿Caged Bird¿, Maya Angelou shows underdevelopment of black woman due to tradition. As a coloured woman Maya Angelou raises her voice and says that soon, black people will be free. The present research concludes that author is presenting theme of hope in all above poems and she is a courageous black woman.
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Iqbal, Zafar, Parveen, Saima
Titel
The Poetics of Black Feminist Narrative. A Literary Analysis of Maya Angelou's Poetry
Uitgever
GRIN Verlag
Jaar
2018
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
24
Gewicht
54 gr
EAN
9783668704770
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211 x 146 x 7 mm
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