by Maya Angelou, Kathleen M. Rutten · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789070610470
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«Ik weet waarom gekooide vogels zingen» is the autobiography of Maya Angelou translated into Dutch by Kathleen M. Rutten, in paperback (264 pages).
Maya Angelou recalls in this first autobiographical volume her childhood and adolescence as a Black girl in the rural South of the United States, marked by racism and segregation, and finds in books and family ties a path to build her identity and her voice.
Dutch edition of 1987, translated from the original «I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings» (1970). Part of Maya Angelou's autobiographical series.
For readers of memoirs and autobiographical narrative interested in the African American experience and the fight against racism during the twentieth century.
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou's series of seven autobiographies focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
