Maya Angelou
“In the following volume, Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas, Maya, now in her early twenties, displays a sense of self-rejection that negates the more positive ending of Gather Together. She’s too tall, too skinny. Her teeth stick out. Her hair is “kinked” (4). She is distrustful of people who show an interest in her. How similar this portrait is to the beginning of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, where she believes herself to be ugly and deplores her ruffled purple dress. T...he description is also reminiscent of negative self-images in other autobiographies by African American women, for example, in the early pages of Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), or in the racial confusion experienced by bell hooks when her parents gave her white dolls when she longed for “unwanted, unloved brown dolls covered in dust” (1996, 24).
For the lonely Maya, the major escape is contemporary music. She frequently visits a record store on Fillmore Street in Los Angeles, a place with turntables and stalls for listening to the newest records.MoreLess
For the lonely Maya, the major escape is contemporary music. She frequently visits a record store on Fillmore Street in Los Angeles, a place with turntables and stalls for listening to the newest records.MoreLess
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