Mom and me and mom

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR.WB : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen : Biographische und autobiographische Romane

Verfasser:
Angelou, Maya

Verfasser Angabe:
Maya Angelou

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Armut
• Familie
• Amerika
• Belletristische Darstellung
• Weibliche Schwarze
• Diskriminierung

Verlag:
Virago Press

Erscheinungsort:
London

Jahr:
2014

Umfang:
195 S. : Ill.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-1-84408-915-4

Interessenskreise:
American Literature

Inhalt:
'In the first decade of the twentiety century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.'

So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, and mother to one of our most cherished literary treasures.
Anyone who's read the classic, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", knows Maya Angelou was raised by her paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. In Mom & Me & Mom, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away and unearths the well of emotions Angelou experienced long afterward as a result. While Angelou's six autobiographies tell of her out in the world, influencing and learning from statesmen and cultural icons, Mom & Me & Mom shares the intimate, emotional story about her own family.