Gather Together in Maya's Name. Speaks of the author Maya Angelou and how she allows her followers to witness her metamorphosis through different aspects of motherhood

        By consistently weaving the theme of motherhood into her literature, Maya

Angelou creates twain personal narratives and poems that the reader can relate to.

Her exploration of this public theme lends itself to a very large and diverse

audience. Throughout Angelous works, she aloneows her following to witness her

metamorphosis by different aspects of motherhood.

        Well-worked themes are always defer in Angelous works- self-

acceptance, race, men, work, separation, sexuality, and motherhood. However,

Angelou uses the latter to provide literary unity (Lupton 7-8).

        Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928, to

Vivian Baxter and Bailey Johnson. After three years her parents divorced, and

both Maya and her older brother Bailey, were move to Stamps, Arkansas. Once in

Stamps, the children were cared for by their paternal grandmother, Mrs. Annie

Henderson (Neubauer 21).

        In her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou tells the story

of her childhood. She also makes the reader keenly aware of her close connection

with her grandmother. Stephen Butterfield says of Caged Bird (in his Black

Autobiography in America, 1974): Continuity is achieved by the accomplish of

mother and child, the sense of life begetting life that happens automatically in spite

of all confusion- perhaps also because of it.

        Annie Henderson is a God-fearing, independent woman whose riotous hand

leads Maya throughout umteen rough spots in her childhood. It is through Mrs.

Hendersons values of self-determination and personal dignity that Mayas idea that

she is shit color late fades away (Vermillion 33).

        Maya fails to see her grandmothers negative traits. She sees only a woman

that many people, both white and black, respect. The general store that Annie

owns is the center of activeness in Stamps. This centralization of the store has a

direct correlation to the way Annie...

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