The Heart of a Woman | Literary Precedents
Though memoirs and autobiographies are perhaps more popular in this era than any other, there is still a long tradition of self-reflexive writing from which Angelou draws. More specifically, Angelou's book fits into a long line of African-American writings that relate personal experience as a means of calling attention to the privations faced by Americans of African descent.
Two of the earliest examples of African-American autobiographical writing are The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl...
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