A literature of black women’s courage and experience is at the heart of Maya Angelou’s writing. She has been called a national institution and the people’s poet. It has been suggested that she has manifested an indomitable spirit and benign will in her most famous book,
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings . This addition to the
Bloom’s Modern Critical Views
series is enhanced by a chronology, bibliography, notes on the contributors, and an introductory essay by noted literary scholar Harold Bloom.