A Sociopoetic Study of Maya Angelou's Autobiographies

ISBN-13: 9783844383287 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str.

Laura Delano

Opis

Among African American Women there is a strong community bonding and this solidarity becomes a platform of survival. Maya Angelou, a renowned contemporary African American Woman Writer has recorded her life in a series of six autobiographical volumes. Mikhail Bakhtin pronounces that any verbal discourse is a social phenomenon social throughout its entire range and in each and every of its factors, from the sound image to the furthest reaches of abstract meaning. This is why Sociological Poetics is a viable means for studying literary texts, especially Black American women s autobiographical writings. The process of individuation of Maya traced through rigid\flexible deterministic positions of social existence, applying sociological theories of Goffman and Giddens, toward the ever-renewing dialogic authoring of her Self in the Bakhtinian mode, forms the core content of the book. It analyses how Maya s responsive interaction with the Other - which is everything in her environment - makes the process of individuation, dynamic and continuous.

O autorze

Dr. Laura Delano is currently working as Assistant Professor of English at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India. Her teaching and research areas are English and American Literatures, New Literatures in English, Theory and Criticism and studying literary texts through the sociopoetic spectrum.