The Heart of a Woman (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Maya Angelou
- First Published: 1981
- Time of Work: 1957–1962
- Setting: California, New York City, Cairo, and Ghana
- Principal Characters: Maya Angelou, Guy Johnson, Vivian Baxter, Vusumzi Make, David Du Bois
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, Social action, 1960’s, Authors or writers, Autobiography, Poetry or poets, Single parents or single-parent families, Singing or singers, Drama or dramatists
- Locales: Ghana, California, New York, NY, Cairo, Egypt
Form and Content
In The Heart of a Woman, the fourth volume of the continuing autobiography begun with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), Maya Angelou describes her deepening awareness of the responsibilities of being an African-American woman and mother during the early days of the American civil rights struggle.
Angelou’s account of her personal journey is arranged chronologically in twenty chapters. Chapter I shows her life in California, where she worked as a singer to support her twelve-year-old son, Guy. Chapters 2 through 14 describe her life...
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