MAYA ANGELOU’S CONTRIBUTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Afro-American literature, autobiography genre, poetry, caged bird, racism, autobiographical fiction, motif, Civil rights’ movement.Abstrak
This article discusses prominent writer Maya Angelou’s life path through hard times of Afro-American people. By writing beautiful poems and autobiographies she could describe Afro-American people’s dreams , mostly her literal works were voice of unique literal genre often came across in Afro-American female literature as “caged bird”.
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