Session
Education and Development
Description
A whole portrayal of the most brilliant echoes against the unbearable shown racist feelings on the black population, is without any doubt pretty well present in the American novel `I know why the caged bird sings` by Maya Angelou. The sad echoes of extreme loneliness, the feeling of being under evaluated, of not being even noticed as human beings, are depicted in a marvellous way in this novel. Maya did not have a pleasant childhood at all. She was the sister of Bailey whose parents were divorced. They were sent to St. Louis. From this moment, the very realistic feelings about her life have been shown throughout the whole novel. First of all, the author concentrates on the unbearable oppression of racism so freely shown on the blacks, the humiliation that she has to go through almost all her life, the unpleasant situations that she has to experience. That is why this book is an ode to the cosmopolitan echoes which are hidden in almost every single word of throughout the whole novel. The whole novel is an autobiographical story of Maya`s life. She struggles about one of the worst evils present even nowadays in a great number of countries all around the world. She feels imprisoned inside the metal bars which symbolize her stress, pain, complete dissatisfaction with the idea how bad and harmful can human beings be. Her living in one and only one place that is the frequent movement from one place to another also causes her an enormous stress, because she raises her voice against the planned dislocation of the black people from one place to another, thus not having a stable living place. She also writes about her own dissatisfaction of her physical look, beginning with her teeth. Still, this is a wonderful novel which deals with the extremely harmful deformities of a lot of societies in the so called ``our modern world``.
Keywords:
loneliness, oppression, racism, evil, dissatisfaction
Session Chair
Silvishah Miftari Goodspeed
Session Co-Chair
Halil Bashota
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-69-1
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
27-10-2018 1:30 PM
End Date
27-10-2018 3:00 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.135
Recommended Citation
Ejupi, Vlera and Bashota, Halil, "The Cosmopolitan echo of Maya Angelou in her novel ``I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings``" (2018). UBT International Conference. 135.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2018/all-events/135
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The Cosmopolitan echo of Maya Angelou in her novel ``I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings``
Pristina, Kosovo
A whole portrayal of the most brilliant echoes against the unbearable shown racist feelings on the black population, is without any doubt pretty well present in the American novel `I know why the caged bird sings` by Maya Angelou. The sad echoes of extreme loneliness, the feeling of being under evaluated, of not being even noticed as human beings, are depicted in a marvellous way in this novel. Maya did not have a pleasant childhood at all. She was the sister of Bailey whose parents were divorced. They were sent to St. Louis. From this moment, the very realistic feelings about her life have been shown throughout the whole novel. First of all, the author concentrates on the unbearable oppression of racism so freely shown on the blacks, the humiliation that she has to go through almost all her life, the unpleasant situations that she has to experience. That is why this book is an ode to the cosmopolitan echoes which are hidden in almost every single word of throughout the whole novel. The whole novel is an autobiographical story of Maya`s life. She struggles about one of the worst evils present even nowadays in a great number of countries all around the world. She feels imprisoned inside the metal bars which symbolize her stress, pain, complete dissatisfaction with the idea how bad and harmful can human beings be. Her living in one and only one place that is the frequent movement from one place to another also causes her an enormous stress, because she raises her voice against the planned dislocation of the black people from one place to another, thus not having a stable living place. She also writes about her own dissatisfaction of her physical look, beginning with her teeth. Still, this is a wonderful novel which deals with the extremely harmful deformities of a lot of societies in the so called ``our modern world``.