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020			_a9781844085026
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040			_aDLC _beng _ctbs
100	1		_aAngelou, Maya.
245	1	0	_aGather together in my name _c/ Maya Angelou
260			_aVirago Press, London, 2008
300			_a219 p. ; 20 cm
520			_aGather Together in My Name is a 1974 memoir by American writer and poet Maya Angelou. It is the second book in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies. Written three years after the publication of and beginning immediately following the events described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, it follows Angelou, called Rita, from the ages of 17 to 19. The title is taken from the Bible, but also conveys how one Black female lived in the white-dominated society of the U.S. following World War II. Angelou expands upon many themes that she started discussing in her first autobiography, including motherhood and family, racism, identity, education and literacy. Rita becomes closer to her mother in this book, and goes through a variety of jobs and relationships as she tries to provide for her young son and find her place in the world. Angelou continues to discuss racism in Gather Together, but moves from speaking for all Black women to describing how one young woman dealt with it. The book exhibits the narcissism of young people, but describes how Rita discovers her identity. Like many of Angelou's autobiographies, Gather Together is concerned with Angelou's on-going self-education. Gather Together was not as critically acclaimed as Angelou's first autobiography, but received mostly positive reviews and was recognized as being better written than its predecessor. The book's structure, consisting of a series of episodes tied together by theme and content, parallels the chaos of adolescence, which some critics feel makes it an unsatisfactory sequel to Caged Bird. Rita's many physical movements throughout the book, which affects the book's organization and quality, has caused at least one critic to call it a travel narrative.
583	1		_acommitted to retain _c20170930 _d20421231 _fHathiTrust _uhttps://www.hathitrust.org/shared_print_program _5AEU _zHathiTrust Shared Print commitment 2017
590			_aUniversity of Alberta copy in the Arnold/Nitecki Africana Collection.
600		0	_aAngelou, Maya, 1928-2014 _913995
650		0	_aAfrican American women authors -- 20th century -- Biography _922671
650		0	_aAfrican American civil rights workers _922670
655		0	_aAutobiographies _922646
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041			_aEnglish
653			_aREADING IN ENGLISH